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Social understanding and the problem of "other mind"
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S1811-833X0000617-8-1
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Article
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Authors
Vladimir Filatov 
Edition
Volume 57 Issue 4
Pages
6-22
Abstract
The article discusses the main developments in the theory of social understanding. This new interdisciplinary area of research emerged at the end of the 20th century as a synthesis of a number of directions - analytical epistemology, philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, neuroscience. Most philosophers and scientists believe that the core of social understanding is the ability to understand the mental states of other people. Studies of this ability have been called «theory of mind». This traditional problem of epistemology has now ceased to be the subject of «armchair philosophy» and turned into a field in which philosophy began to interact with the empirical cognitive sciences. Discussions about cognitive mechanisms that provide social understanding are dominated by two main approaches: theory-theory and simulation theory, as well as various options for their integration. The article also discusses an alternative interactive approach to social understanding research. Its supporters believe that people in real interactions with each other rarely use theorizing or mental simulation, but use direct social perception and various forms of embodied social practice.
Keywords
social cognition, other minds, folk psychology, mentalization, theory of mind, simulation theory, social perception
Date of publication
01.12.2020
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