Category: Social Cognition

Call for Papers: The Affective Turn in Cognitive Science

CFPs / Cognition / Conferences / Emotion / Social Cognition

Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC) midterm conference 2022 June 22-24, 2022 – University of Parma  Overview The 2022 Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC) midterm Conference will be held at the University of Parma on June 22-24 and will be hosted by the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and …

Epistemic Injustice and Implicit Bias

books / Epistemology / Erin Beeghly and Alex Madva: An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind / Philosophy of Mind / Social CognitionOne Comment

This post about epistemic in justice and implicit bias by Kathy Puddifoot and Jules Holroyd is the fourth and final post of this week’s series on An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind (Routledge, 2020). Find the other posts here. Epistemic injustice occurs when a person …

The Limitations of Implicit Bias

books / Erin Beeghly and Alex Madva: An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind / perception / Social Cognition

This post about epistemic in justice and implicit bias by Susanna Siegel is the third post of this week’s series on An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind (Routledge, 2020). Find the other posts here. The first waves of research in psychology surrounding implicit bias claimed …

The Embodied Biased Mind

books / Erin Beeghly and Alex Madva: An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind / Social Cognition

This post about embodied cognition and implicit bias by Céline Leboeuf is the second post of this week’s series on An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind (Routledge, 2020). Find the other posts here. We often think of our mental lives as “in our heads.” This …

Trust and Testimony in Social Learning

books / Emiliano Loria: Learning Through Others / Epistemology / Social CognitionOne Comment

Natural pedagogy focuses on knowledge transfer and how such transfer may occur. The theory describes a communicative relationship which is, by definition, an exchange influenced and determined by the principle of epistemic primacy that portrays infants as «avid seekers of information provided by others» (Poulin-Dubois et al. 2010, p. 303). …

Learning through … Natural Pedagogy

books / Emiliano Loria: Learning Through Others / Social Cognition3 Comments

The book Learning through Others (2020) illustrates and discusses the infant social learning theory called “Natural Pedagogy”. The natural pedagogy theory, proposed by György Gergely and Gergely Csibra, has the ambitious scope of providing a model of infant social learning. This particular social learning system is funded on a communicative …

4. What makes a social emotion?

bodily experience / Emotion / Mindreading / Social Cognition / Tom Cochrane: The Emotional Mind

An important aspect of emotions that is relatively neglected in both the philosophical and psychological literature is their social manifestation. There is plenty of work on empathy, the role of emotions in morality, and even a growing interest in emotional expression, but all this should be tied together with a …

Epistemic and Ethical Implications

Mindreading / Shannon Spaulding: How We Understand Others / Social Cognition

Most philosophical discussions of mindreading stay squarely within the realm of philosophy of psychology. Theorizing about mindreading plays a role in debates about the modularity of the mind, the representational theory of mind, language development, the semantics of ordinary language use, etc. Using mindreading as a case study for understanding …

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