Intentions and Intentionality : Foundations

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 Intentionalityhighlights 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.

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: The Significance of Intentionality	p. 1
Desires, Intentions, and Intentionality
Acting Intentionally: Probing Folk Notions	p. 27
The Distinction between Desire and Intention: A Folk-Conceptual Analysis	p. 45
Some Thoughts on Ascribing Complex Intentional Concepts to Young Children	p. 69
The Paradox of Intention: Assessing Children's Metarepresentational Understanding	p. 85
Intentions as Emergent Products of Social Interactions	p. 105
Detecting Intentions and Intentionality
Developing Intentional Understandings	p. 125
How Infants Make Sense of Intentional Action	p. 149
"Like Me" as a Building Block for Understanding Other Minds: Bodily Acts, Attention, and Intention	p. 171
Making Sense of Human Behavior: Action Parsing and Intentional Inference	p. 193
Desire, Intention, and the Simulation Theory	p. 207
On the Possibilities of Detecting Intentions Prior to Understanding Them	p. 225
Intentionality and Behavior Explanations
Action Explanations: Causes and Purposes	p. 251
Folk Explanations of Intentional Action	p. 265
The Rocky Road from Acts to Dispositions: Insights for Attribution Theory from Developmental Research on Theories of Mind	p. 287
Intentionality and Responsibility In Social Context
The Social Folk Theorist: Insights from Social and Cultural Psychology on the Contents and Contexts of Folk Theorizing	p. 307
Responsibility for Social Transgressions: An Attributional Analysis	p. 331
Moral Responsibility and the Interpretive Turn: Children's Changing Conceptions of Truth and Rightness	p. 345
Intentional Agency, Responsibility, and Justice	p. 367
Bibliography	p. 381
List of Authors	p. 411
Index	p. 415
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