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Agency: Its Role In Mental Development (Essays in Developmental Psychology)

Agency: Its Role In Mental Development (Essays in Developmental Psychology) Hardback - 1996

by Russell, James

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  • Title Agency: Its Role In Mental Development (Essays in Developmental Psychology)
  • Author Russell, James
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Psychology Press, Hove, East Sussex, England
  • Date 1996-01-31
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR004859429
  • ISBN 9780863772283 / 0863772285
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 6.24 x 1.01 in (23.72 x 15.85 x 2.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Health & Fitness
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychology, Developmental psychology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002483210
  • Dewey Decimal Code 613

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While, in the last 10 years or so, the mainstream of cognitive developmental research has been flowing inexorably towards a sea of questions about children's "theory of mind", philosophers and developmental psychologists have often found themselves traveling in the same boat.]

From the rear cover

The idea behind this book is that developing a conception of the physical world and a conception of mind is impossible without the exercise of agency, meaning "the power to alter at will one's perceptual inputs". The thesis is derived from a philosophical account of the role of agency in knowledge - the first time this has been attempted in the context of developmental psychology. The book is divided into three parts. In Part One, Russell argues that purely "representational" theories of mind and of mental development have been overvalued, thereby clearing the ground for the book's central thesis. In Part Two, he proposes that, because objective experience depends upon the experience of agency, the development of the "object concept" in human infants is grounded in the development of executive-attentional capacities. In Part Three, an analysis of the links between agency and self-awareness generates an original theory of the nature of certain stage-like transitions in mental functioning and of the relationship between executive and mentalising deficits in autism. The book will be of particular interest to students and researchers in cognitive-developmental psychology, to philosophers of mind, and to anybody with an interest in cognitive science.

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