Re: [xmca] XM, C's and H's

Its also in a wonderful collection by Olson and Torrance - The
Handbook of Human Development.
Shirley
On 16 Dec 2008, at 05:15, Andy Blunden wrote:

> At last! I've been driving myself crazy over this one. The
> discussion of "Folk Psychology" I liked was in:
>
> *Jerome Bruner. Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture*
>
> It's on Google books, so you can check it out there. Sorry for all
> that! :(
>
> Andy
>
> Andy Blunden wrote:
>> Derek, I should sleep some more, and then maybe I'd remember not
>> only how to spell an author's name, but also which author I was
>> reading! My apologies. I will continue trying to discover in which
>> book I found this interesing argument.
>> But in the meantime, I was not absolutely completely deceiving you
>> in that Tomasello has an extended argument about what he calls
>> "Gricean Communicative intention," the drift of which is that you
>> can only make sense of people's speech and actions on the basis
>> that the speaker assumes that the listener knows what the
>> speaker's intention is, and that the speaker knows that the
>> listener knows that the speaker knows that the listener knows the
>> speaker's intention, and so on ad infinitum. In my words a
>> rational knowledge of "folk psychology" is presupposed in
>> communicative action.
>> Andy
>> Derek Melser wrote:
>>> Andy,
>>> I was looking up Tomasello's 'Origins of Human Communication' on
>>> google books -- as you were writing this last email of yours, as
>>> it happens -- hoping to browse the bit on folk psychology, but it
>>> assures me there is no reference to 'folk psychology' in the
>>> entire book. How can this be???
>>> DM
>>>
>>> 2008/12/16 Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
>>> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>>
>>>
>>> Oops, I meant Michael Tomasello. (I realised this while
>>> asleep last
>>> night! Isn't that weird?)
>>> Andy
>>> Andy Blunden wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Michael Thomasino has a nice bit about "folk psychology"
>>> in his
>>> "Origins of Human Communication" where he points out that
>>> folk
>>> psychology exists as a real force in human life and goes
>>> from
>>> there into a very interesting argument. You should have a
>>> look
>>> at it.
>>>
>>>
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