Making Sense - David R. Olson

Making Sense

What It Means to Understand

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
200 Seiten
2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-51333-0 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
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.

David R. Olson is University Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has authored more than 300 articles and 20 books, including The World on Paper (Cambridge, 1994), Psychological Theory and Educational Reform: How School Remakes Mind and Society (Cambridge, 2004) and The Mind on Paper (Cambridge, 2016). His research focuses on children's developing consciousness of their own and others' mental states and on the role that language and literacy play in this development.

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Understanding as feeling and understanding as concept; 3. The linguistic basis of mind- linguistic concepts; 4. Subjective mental states: the feeling of understanding; 5. Objective mental states: the truth of understanding; 6. Intersubjectivity of mental states; 7. Identity conditions for feelings and concepts; 8. What 'understanding' means: ascribing understanding; 9. The referential scope of understanding; 10. Understanding in the theory of mind; 11. Understanding and making sense; 12. Understanding as a learnable skill; 13. Understanding in everyday life; 14. Ascriptivism and cognitive development; References.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 235 mm
Gewicht 450 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Pädagogische Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10 1-316-51333-5 / 1316513335
ISBN-13 978-1-316-51333-0 / 9781316513330
Zustand Neuware
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