Making Sense : What It Means to Understand
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1316513335
ISBN-13
9781316513330
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 5th, 2022
Print length
200 Pages
Weight
450 grams
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23.50 x 15.70 x 1.40 cms
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Drawing together developmental and philosophical theories of mind, this book argues that understanding is little more than the ability to ascribe understanding to oneself, a development that depends critically on acquiring the linguistic concept of understanding. This account of understanding provides a model for mental states more generally.
Understanding, as Descartes, Locke and Kant all insisted, is the primary ''faculty'' of the mind; yet our modern sciences have been slow to advance a clear and testable account of what it means to understand, of children''s acquisition of this concept and, in particular, how children come to ascribe understanding to themselves and others. By drawing together developmental and philosophical theories, this book provides a systematic account of children''s concept of understanding and places understanding at the heart of children''s ''theory of mind''. Children''s subjective awareness of their own minds, of what they think, depends on learning a language for ascribing mental states to themselves and others. This book will appeal to researchers in developmental psychology, cognitive science, education and philosophy who are interested in the cognitive and emotional development of children and in the more basic question of what it means to have a mind.
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