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The shared world : perceptual common knowledge, demonstrative communication, and social space

Seemann, Axel, 1969- author

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\"The Shared World offers a new treatment of the capacity to perceive, act on, and know about the world together with others. It develops the view that creatures capable of joint attention stand in a unique perceptual and epistemic relation to their surroundings: they operate in an environment that they, through communication with their fellow perceivers, help constitute. This environment is characterized by a specific spatial order. Joint perceivers determine the location of the object of their attention and action relative to their respective standpoints, and thus operate with a spatial frame of reference in which these standpoints are presented as centres of perception and action. The resulting theory casts light on a range of philosophical and psychological issues: the essay discusses demonstrative reference in communication, common knowledge about jointly perceived objects, and spatial awareness in joint perception and -action. It integrates these social phenomena into a more general discussion about the nature of mind and argues for their crucial relevance in the context of that discussion\"-- Provided by publisher

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Subject: Perception (Philosophy) Social aspects. / Communication Social aspects. / Space perception Social aspects.
• ISBN: 9780262039796

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
B828.45.S44 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE