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Unlike most current researchers in philosophy and psychology, who view interpretationas a way to understand the minds and behavior of others, Radu J. Bogdan sets out to establish a newevolutionary and practical view of interpretation. According to Bogdan, the ability to interpretothers' mental states has evolved under communal, political, and epistemic pressures to enable us tocope with the impact of other organisms on our own goals in the competition to survive.Interpretation evolved among primates by natural and then cultural selection. As an adaptation, itis a competence in the form of a battery of practical skills that serve the interpreter's interestsin social interactions. Evolutionary theory does not just deepen our understanding ofinterpretation; without it, we cannot understand what interpretation is and how it does its job.Interpreting Minds raises many thought-provoking issues for philosophers of mind and culture;evolutionary, developmental, and social psychologists; ethologists; cognitive and culturalanthropologists; evolutionary biologists; and others interested in cognitive development.
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"A distinctive analysis of the most fundamental questions about how we interpret the actions of others...Bogdan's analysis should provoke thoughtful consideration and discussion across philosophy, cognitive science, and ethology, in which the nature of mind-reading is treated with a much-needed new depth and breadth." Andrew Whiten Nature "A profoundly original and controversial piece of work in cognitive science -- a title not to be missed by the numerous interdisciplinary students of this mental capacity of such uncertain name." Juan-Carlos Gomez Trends in Cognitive Sciences "A provocative contribution... an important new practical perspective to interpretation." Colin G. Beer Contemporary Psychology
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Radu J. Bogdan is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science and Director of the Cognitive Studies Program at Tulane University and Regular Guest Professor and Director of the OPEN MIND master program in cognitive science, University of Bucharest, Romania. He is the author of Our Own Minds: Sociocultural Grounds for Self-Consciousness (MIT Press, 2010) and other books.
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