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| Title | The tripod effect: Evolutionary perspectives on cooperation, cognition and communication |
| Author/s | Peter Gärdenfors, Ingar Brinck, Mathias Osvath |
| Department/s |
Theoretical Philosophy
Cognitive Science |
| Full-text | Full text is not available in this archive |
| Publication/Series | New perspectives on the symbolic species |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| Pages | 193 - 224 |
| Document type | Book chapter |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer Verlag |
| Status | published |
| Editor | F Stjernfeldt, T Deacon, T Schilhab |
| Abstract English |
This article concerns the co-evolution of hominin cooperation, communication and cognition. Certain hominin ecologies seem to have relied on cognitive foresight. The capacity of planning for future needs, combined with more developed cooperative skills, opened up the cognitive niche of cooperation towards future goals. Such cooperation requires complex intersubjectivity. We analyze five domains of intersubjectivity: emotion, desire, attention, intention, and belief; and argue that cooperation towards future goals requires, among other things, joint intentions (we-intentions). We scrutinize the cognitive and communicative conditions for reciprocal altruism, found in some species; and indirect reciprocity, a form of cooperation typical in the hominin line. |
| Subject |
Philosophy and Religion |
| Keywords | hominin evolution, cognitive foresight, intersubjectivity, cooperation, joint intention, reciprocal altruism |
| ISBN/ISSN/Other |
ISBN: 978-94-007-2336-8 |
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