Action and Interaction - Shaun Gallagher

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Action and Interaction

By: Shaun Gallagher

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Paperback | 24 November 2022

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320 Pages

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20.5 x 14 x 1.5

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Shaun Gallagher presents a ground-breaking interdisciplinary account of human action, bringing out its essentially social dimension. He explores and synthesizes the different approaches of action theory, social cognition, and critical social theory. He shows that in order to understand human agency and the aspects of mind that are associated with it, we need to grasp the crucial role of context or circumstance in action, and the normative constraints of social and cultural practices. He also investigates issues concerning social cognition and embodied intersubjective interaction, including direct social perception and the role of narrative and communicative practices from an interdisciplinary perspective. Gallagher thereby brings together embodied and enactive approaches to action for the first time in this book and, in developing an alternative to standard conceptions of understanding others, he bridges social cognition and critical social theory, drawing out the implications
for recognition, autonomy, and justice.

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...a comprehensive outline of the interactive theory of action. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * J. C. Swindal, CHOICE *
From contemporary analytic philosophy of mind to questions of justice in the context of critical social theory, there is something for everybody. * Fabio Tollon, Metapsychology Online Reviews *
This is a book necessary for these times. It provides a number of insights for further scientific and philosophical research into our nature. * Horacio Banega, Phenomenological Reviews *

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