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Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds$
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Naomi Eilan, Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, and Johannes Roessler

Print publication date: 2005

Print ISBN-13: 9780199245635

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245635.001.0001

Joint Attention, Communication, and Mind

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(p. 1 ) 1 Joint Attention, Communication, and Mind
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Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds
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Naomi Eilan (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245635.003.0001

This chapter argues that a central division among accounts of joint attention, both in philosophy and developmental psychology, turns on how they address two questions: What, if any, is the connection between the capacity to engage in joint attention triangles and the capacity to grasp the idea of objective truth? How do we explain the kind of openness or sharing of minds that occurs in joint attention? The chapter explores the connections between answers to both questions, and argues that theories can be divided into two distinct types according to how these connections are developed.

Keywords:   joint attention, objectivity, openness, communication, emotion, other minds

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