Edited by Bertram F. Malle, Louis J. Moses, and Dare A. Baldwin The MIT Press, 2001 FROM THE BACK COVER "Social interaction requires social cognition-the ability to perceive, interpret, and explain the actions of others. This ability relies on the concepts of intention and intentionality. For example, people distinguish sharply between intentional and unintentional behavior; identify the intentions underlying the behavior of others; explain completed actions with reference to intentions, beliefs, and desires; and evaluate the social worth of actions using the concepts of intentionality and responsibility. Intentions and Intentionality highlights the roles these concepts play in social cognition. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it offers cutting edge work from researchers in cognitive, developmental, and social psychology and in philosophy, primatology, and law. It includes both conceptual and empirical contributions." Bertram F. Malle, Louis J. Moses, and Dare A. Baldwin are Associate Professors in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword by Jerome Bruner ix Preface xiii Introduction: The Significance of Intentionality 1 Bertram F. Malle, Louis J. Moses, and Dare A. Baldwin I. Desires, Intentions, and Intentionality 1. Acting Intentionally: Probing Folk Notions 27 Alfred R. Mele 2. The Distinction between Desire and Intention: A Folk-Conceptua1 Analysis 45 Bertram F. Malle and Joshua Knobe 3. Some Thoughts on Ascribing Comp1ex Intentiona1 Concepts to Young Chi1dren 69 Louis J. Moses 4. The Paradox of Intention: Assessing Children's Metarepresentational Understanding 85 Janet Wilde Astington 5. Intentions as Emergent Products of Social Interactions 105 Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. II. Detecting Intentions and Intentionality 6. Developing Intentional Understandings 125 Henry M. Wellman and Ann T. Phillips 7. How Infants Make Sense of Intentional Action 149 Amanda L. Woodward, Jessica A. Sommerville, and Jose J. Guajardo 8. "Like Me" as a Building Block for Understanding Other Minds: Bodily Acts, Attention, and Intention 171 Andrew N. Meltzoff and Rechele Brooks 9. Making Sense of Human Behavior: Action Parsing and Intentional Inference 193 Jodie A. Baird and Dare A. Baldwin 10. Desire, Intention, and the Simulation Theory 207 Alvin I. Goldman 11. On the Possibilities of Detecting Intentions Prior to Understanding Them 225 Daniel J. Povinelli III. Intentionality and Behavior Explanations 12. Action Explanations: Causes and Purposes 251 G. F. Schueler 13. Folk Explanations of Intentional Action 265 Bertram F. Malle 14. The Rocky Road from Acts to Dispositions: Insights for Attribution Theory from Developmental Research on Theories of Mind 287 Andrea D. Rosati, Eric D. Knowles, Charles W. Kalish, Alison Gopnik, Daniel R. Ames, and Michael W. Morris IV. Intentionality and Responsibility In Social Context 15. The Social Folk Theorist: Insights from Social and Cultural Psychology on the Contents and Contexts of Folk Theorizing 307 Daniel R. Ames, Eric D. Knowles, Michael W. Morris, Charles W. Kalish, Andrea D. Rosati, and Alison Gopnik 16. Responsibility for Social Transgressions: An Attributional Analysis 331 Bernard Weiner 17. Moral Responsibility and the Interpretive Turn: Children's Changing Conceptions of Truth and Rightness 345 Michael J. Chandler, Bryan W. Sokol, and Darcy Hallett 18. Intentional Agency, Responsibility, and Justice 367 Leonard V. Kaplan Bibliography 381 List of Authors 411 Index 415 ISBN: 0262632675 (paper) $25.00 USD WHERE TO ORDER: The MIT Press - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142-1493 Contact: David Cecere, The MIT Press Phone: (617) 258-0603 Email: dcecere@mit.edu Website: http://mitpress.mit.edu Email: mitpress-orders@mit.edu Phone: (800) 405-1619 Posted Date: 8/18/2003
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