Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition [Hardcover]

Bertram F. Malle (Editor), Louis J. Moses (Editor), Dare A. Baldwin (Editor), Jerome S. Bruner (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 16, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0262133865 | ISBN-13: 978-0262133869

Social interaction requires social cognition—the ability to perceive, interpret, and explain the actions of others. This ability fundamentally relies on the concepts of intention and intentionality. For example, people distinguish sharply between intentional and unintentional behavior; identify the intentions underlying others' behavior; 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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...a new revolution is underway; the excellent volume edited by Malle, Moses, and Baldwin is the latest manifesto."
— Philip David Zelazo, Contemporary Psychology

About the Author

Bertram Malle is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the University of Oregon. He is the editor of Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition (MIT Press, 2001).

Louis J. Moses is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon.

Dare A. Baldwin is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 444 pages
• Publisher: The MIT Press (April 16, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262133865
• ISBN-13: 978-0262133869
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,794,140 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bertram F. Malle was born in Graz, Austria and studied psychology, philosphy, and linguistics at the Unversity of Graz. After receiving Master's degrees in psychology and philosophy, he entered graduate school in psychology in the United States in 1990. He received his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1995 and joined the faculty of the University of Oregon. He was receipient of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology Outstanding Dissertation award in 1995 and received a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 1997. During his tenure at the University of Oregon, Dr. Malle also served as the Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences (2001-2007). In 2008 he joined Brown University as Professor of Psychology. Currently he is also president of the Society of Philosophy and Psychology. In his research, Malle focuses on social cognition, in particular such issues as intentionality judgments, mental state inferences, behavior explanations, and moral judgments in the courtroom and in everyday life. He uses a wide variety of methodologies from text analysis to observations of social interaction to chronometric assessments of social-cognitive processes. Malle's publications include over 50 articles and chapters as well as five books (four of them are displayed here). He is currently working on a book entitled 'Social Cognitive Science.'