Sharing Thoughts: Philosophical Perspectives on Intersubjectivity and Communication - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192864920 ISBN 13: 9780192864925

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2025

Synopsis

Philosophical work on the nature of thought has, until recently, focused primarily on what it is for an individual to think, leaving aside important questions about the intersubjective dimension of thought. For example: In what sense, if any, can thoughts really be shared? Is there a shareability requirement on successful communication, disagreement, or the transmission of knowledge? Do particular types of thought such as those based on perception or self-location raise distinctive challenges to their shareability? More generally, how should we understand the communication and coordination of our thoughts in exchanges with others? Are there distinctive rationality constraints governing the intersubjective aspects of thought?

Sharing Thoughts brings together original work by established and emerging philosophers to address these and related foundational issues, while also paying attention to more specific questions such as the interplay between the intersubjectivity of thought and the internalism/externalism debate, the elucidation of first-person or egocentric thought, our capacity for joint thinking, the conditions for knowledge transmission and collective inquiry, the expression of thought in music, and more.

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About the Author

José Luis Bermúdez is Professor of Philosophy and Samuel Rhea Gammon Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. Previously, he was Director of the Philosophy-Psychology-Neuroscience at Washington University in St Louis and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. His many books include The Paradox of Self-Consciousness, Thinking without Words, The Bodily Self, and Frame it Again, as well as his widely-used textbook Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind, now in its fourth edition.


Matheus Valente is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Language, Mind, and Cognition research group at the University of Lisbon. Previously, he held research positions at the University of Valencia, University of Barcelona, Institut Jean Nicod, and UNICAMP. He has published on mental and linguistic content, thought and intersubjectivity, reference and communication, de se and self-locating belief, visual representations, and other topics in journals such as Inquiry, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, and Synthese.

Víctor M. Verdejo is an Assistant Professor (Ramón y Cajal fellow) at Pompeu Fabra University. Previously, he held positions at one British and five Spanish universities. His publications include over 30 papers on concepts and mental representation. More recently, his works have focused specifically on the shareability of thought and the first-person concept. His articles have been published in journals such as Erkenntnis, Inquiry, Dialectica, Philosophical Explorations, Acta Analytica, and Synthese. He is a senior member of the Logos Research Group, a collaborator of the Valencia Philosophy Lab, and an executive member of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192864920
• ISBN 13: 9780192864925
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Bermúdez José Luis, Valente Matheus, Verdejo Víctor M.