Helping Behavior and Joint Action in Young Children

An important idea due to Tomasello and others is that the human capacity as the human capacity for social cooperation is at the heart of the species’ capacity to understand others’ mental states and behavior. Furthermore, they argue that this idea allows for an explanation of how humans came to sha...

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Autores principales:	Glenda Satne, Alessandro Salice
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Lenguaje:	EN FR IT
Publicado:	Rosenberg & Sellier 2016
Materias:	joint action cooperation development Aesthetics BH1-301 Ethics BJ1-1725
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e44dbf5f7b784b3bbe268e923c47b5502021-12-02T10:23:37ZHelping Behavior and Joint Action in Young Children10.13128/Phe_Mi-181552280-78532239-4028https://doaj.org/article/e44dbf5f7b784b3bbe268e923c47b5502016-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7217https://doaj.org/toc/2280-7853https://doaj.org/toc/2239-4028 An important idea due to Tomasello and others is that the human capacity as the human capacity for social cooperation is at the heart of the species’ capacity to understand others’ mental states and behavior. Furthermore, they argue that this idea allows for an explanation of how humans came to share thoughts and language. While this is a promising idea, the special attempt to pursue this hypothesis in developmental studies and evolutionary theory developed by Tomasello and his research group faces several problems. This is especially apparent in their attempts to explain helping behavior and joint action in young children. In this paper, we argue that many of these problems result from assuming that the right explanation of joint action and simple forms of shared intentionality is given by Bratman’s theory of shared intentions. Glenda SatneAlessandro SaliceRosenberg & Sellierarticlejoint actioncooperationdevelopmentAestheticsBH1-301EthicsBJ1-1725ENFRITPhenomenology and Mind, Iss 9 (2016)
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description	An important idea due to Tomasello and others is that the human capacity as the human capacity for social cooperation is at the heart of the species’ capacity to understand others’ mental states and behavior. Furthermore, they argue that this idea allows for an explanation of how humans came to share thoughts and language. While this is a promising idea, the special attempt to pursue this hypothesis in developmental studies and evolutionary theory developed by Tomasello and his research group faces several problems. This is especially apparent in their attempts to explain helping behavior and joint action in young children. In this paper, we argue that many of these problems result from assuming that the right explanation of joint action and simple forms of shared intentionality is given by Bratman’s theory of shared intentions.
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Helping Behavior and Joint Action in Young Children

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