Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds Issues in Philosophy and Psychology

by Eilan, Naomi; Hoerl, Christoph; McCormack, Teresa; Roessler, Johannes

• ISBN13: 9780199245642
• ISBN10: 0199245649
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Some time around their first birthday, children begin to engage in "triadic" interactions, i.e. interactions with adults that turn specifically on both child and adult jointly attending to an object in their surroundings. Recognized as a developmental milestone amongst psychologists for some time, joint attention has recently also started to attract the attention of philosophers. This volume brings together, for the first time, psychological and philosophical perspectives on the nature and significance of joint attention. Original contributions by leading researchers in both disciplines explore the idea that joint attention has a key foundational role to play in the emergence of communicative abilities, psychological understanding, and, possibly, in the very capacity for objective thought. Contributors: Dare Baldwin, Josep Call, John Campbell, Naomi Eilan, Fabio Franco, Juan-Carlos Gomez, Jane Heal, R. Peter Hobson, Christoph Hoerl, Sue Leekam, Teresa McCormack, Christopher Peacocke, Vasudevi Reddy, Johannes Roessler, Mark A. Sabbagh, Michael Tomasello, Amanda L. Woodward.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	ix
1. Joint Attention, Communication, and Mind	1	(33)
NAOMI EILAN
2. Joint Attention and Understanding the Mind	34	(11)
JANE HEAL
3. What Chimpanzees Know about Seeing, Revisited: An Explanation of the Third Kind	45	(20)
JOSEP CALL AND MICHAEL TOMASELLO
4. Joint Attention and the Notion of Subject: Insights from Apes, Normal Children, and Children with Autism	65	(20)
JUAN-CARLOS GÓMEZ
5. Before the 'Third Element': Understanding Attention to Self	85	(25)
VASUDEVI REDDY
6. Infants' Understanding of the Actions Involved in Joint Attention	110	(19)
AMANDA L. WOODWARD
7. Infant Pointing: Harlequin, Servant of Two Masters	129	(36)
FABIA FRANCO
8. Understanding the Role of Communicative Intentions in Word Learning	165	(20)
MARK A. SABBAGH AND DARE BALDWIN
9. What Puts the Jointness into Joint Attention?	185	(20)
R. PETER HOBSON
10. Why do Children with Autism have a Joint Attention Impairment?	205	(25)
SUE LEEKAM
11. Joint Attention and the Problem of Other Minds	230	(30)
JOHANNES ROESSLER
12. Joint Reminiscing as Joint Attention to the Past	260	(27)
CHRISTOPH HOERL AND TERESA MCCORMACK
13. Joint Attention and Common Knowledge	287	(11)
JOHN CAMPBELL
14. Joint Attention: Its Nature, Reflexivity, and Relation to Common Knowledge	298	(27)
CHRISTOPHER PEACOCKE
Author Index	325	(6)
Subject Index	331