The summer course plans to focus on reviewing and integrating significant recent advances in the interdisciplinary study of two central and closely related topics that have come to preoccupy the current research directions in a wide range of sub-disciplines of the quickly expanding general field of the cognitive and brain sciences including philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience, the developmental, comparative, and evolutionary study of social cognition, psychology of language and communication.
- The first concerns the mechanisms and organizational principles involved in the production, representation, and interpretation of intentional actions in human and non-human, biological and artificial information processing systems.
- The second concerns the study of the inferential and representational systems specialized for understanding other minds in terms of causal intentional mental states (theory-of-mind). Interdisciplinary research on these questions has been growing extremely fast during the last decade and produced significant theoretical and methodological advances in the study of the evolutionary origins, ontogenetic development, and mature functioning in human and non-human organisms (e.g. primates and dogs) of domain-specific interpretative and representational mechanisms that are specialized for interpreting, predicting, explaining and learning from the intentional actions of other agents.
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