Saving the Third-Person Stance

Kaufmann, Laurence

Volume 14 · Number 1 · Pages 34–37

< Previous Paper · Next Paper >

Saving the Third-Person Stance

Laurence Kaufmann

Abstract

Open peer commentary on the article “Decentering the Brain: Embodied Cognition and the Critique of Neurocentrism and Narrow-Minded Philosophy of Mind” by Shaun Gallagher. Abstract: While acknowledging the important contribution of Gallagher’s interactive approach to perception, agency and social cognition, I suggest that the second-person stance it brings forward is not sufficient to account for the way humans navigate the social world. One of the main characteristics of the durable, impersonal constraints proper to institutions might indeed be to bypass the second-person and trigger a subjectless third-person stance.

Citation

Kaufmann L. (2018) Saving the third-person stance. Constructivist Foundations 14(1): 34–37. http://constructivist.info/14/1/034

Export article citation data: Plain Text · BibTex · EndNote · Reference Manager (RIS)

References

Carassa A. & Colombetti M. (2009) Joint meaning. Journal of Pragmatics 41(9): 1837–1854. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar

Dokic J. (2010) Affordances and the sense of joint agency. In: Balconi M. (ed.) Neuropsychology of the sense of agency. Springer, Milan: 23–43. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar

Gallagher S. & Crisafi A. (2009) Mental institutions. Topoi 28(1): 45–51. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar

Gallagher S. & Varga S. (2014) Social constraints on the direct perception of emotions and intentions. Topoi 33(1): 185–199. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar

Jackendoff R. (1999) The natural logic of rights and obligations. In: Jackendoff R. & Bloom P. (ed.) Language, logic, and concepts: Essays in memory of John Macnamara. MIT Press, Cambridge MA: 67–95. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar

Kaufmann L. & Clément F. (2014) Wired for society: Cognizing pathways to society and culture. Topoi 33(2): 20–45. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar

Kaufmann L. (2005) Self-in-a-vat: On John Searle’s ontology of reasons for acting. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 35(4): 447–479. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar

Mead G. H. (1967) Mind, self and society. University of Chicago, Chicago. Originally published in 1934. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar

Searle J. (2001) Rationality in action. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar

Simmel G. (1999) Sociologie: Etudes sur les formes de la socialisation. PUF, Paris. German original published in 1908. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar

Comments: 0

To stay informed about comments to this publication and post comments yourself, please log in first.

LATEST ISSUES

FOLLOW US

Abstract

Citation

References

Comments: 0