coming soon: ‘The Origin of Consciousness in the Social World’
Written on December 1, 2008
The Origin of Consciousness in the Social World (which should be added to the list of books on consciousness), ed. by Charles Whitehead (Imprint Academic, 2008). Amazon has “Search Inside the Book” for this title, so the Table of Contents and an excerpt are available, though the book is still a preorder in the US. (It is in stock at Amazon UK.)
Publisher’s description:
Western individualism has delayed scientific recognition of the essentially social nature of consciousness – or at least of the human mind and brain. Milestone publications (in ethology, primatology and cognitive science), dealing with theory of mind, Machiavellian intelligence, the social brain and mirror neurones, demonstrate that the origin of consciousness needs to be understood in a social context. This is reinforced by classic theorists in social psychology and cultural and social anthropology, like Dilthey, Baldwin, Cooley, Mead and Goffman.
The contributors to this volume, including Chris Frith, Robert Turner, Nalini Ambady, Corrado Sinigaglia, Chris Knight, Colwyn Trevarthen, Vasudevi Reddy, Maya Gratier, Michael Apter, Joan Chiao and Andreas Roepstorff , introduce some of these anthropological themes into consciousness studies.
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