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Healey PGT, Howes C, Kempson R, Mills GJ, Purver M, Gregoromichelaki E, Eshghi A, Hough J. "Who's there?": Depicting identity in interaction. Behav Brain Sci 2023; 46:e37. [PMID: 37017053 DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x22001492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/06/2023]
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Social robots have limited social competences. This leads us to view them as depictions of social agents rather than actual social agents. However, people also have limited social competences. We argue that all social interaction involves the depiction of social roles and that they originate in, and are defined by, their function in accounting for failures of social competence.
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- Patrick G T Healey
- School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK ://cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk
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- Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, 41255 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Philosophy, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK ://gu-clasp.github.io/people/ruth-kempson/
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- Faculty of Arts, Computational Linguistics (CL), University of Groningen, 9712 EK Groningen, Netherlands
- School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Kingston University, Surrey KT1 1LQ, UK
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- School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK ://cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk
- Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, 41255 Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Philosophy, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK ://gu-clasp.github.io/people/ruth-kempson/
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- School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK
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- School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK ://cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk
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Dingemanse M, Liesenfeld A, Rasenberg M, Albert S, Ameka FK, Birhane A, Bolis D, Cassell J, Clift R, Cuffari E, De Jaegher H, Novaes CD, Enfield NJ, Fusaroli R, Gregoromichelaki E, Hutchins E, Konvalinka I, Milton D, Rączaszek-Leonardi J, Reddy V, Rossano F, Schlangen D, Seibt J, Stokoe E, Suchman L, Vesper C, Wheatley T, Wiltschko M. Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences. Cogn Sci 2023; 47:e13230. [PMID: 36625324 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2022] [Accepted: 11/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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A fundamental fact about human minds is that they are never truly alone: all minds are steeped in situated interaction. That social interaction matters is recognized by any experimentalist who seeks to exclude its influence by studying individuals in isolation. On this view, interaction complicates cognition. Here, we explore the more radical stance that interaction co-constitutes cognition: that we benefit from looking beyond single minds toward cognition as a process involving interacting minds. All around the cognitive sciences, there are approaches that put interaction center stage. Their diverse and pluralistic origins may obscure the fact that collectively, they harbor insights and methods that can respecify foundational assumptions and fuel novel interdisciplinary work. What might the cognitive sciences gain from stronger interactional foundations? This represents, we believe, one of the key questions for the future. Writing as a transdisciplinary collective assembled from across the classic cognitive science hexagon and beyond, we highlight the opportunity for a figure-ground reversal that puts interaction at the heart of cognition. The interactive stance is a way of seeing that deserves to be a key part of the conceptual toolkit of cognitive scientists.
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- Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
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- Discourse and Rhetoric Group, Loughborough University
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- Mozilla Foundation
- School of Computer Science, University College Dublin
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- Independent Max Planck Research Group for Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
- National Institute for Physiological Sciences
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- School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- Paris Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
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- Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
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- Department of Psychology, Franklin and Marshall College
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- IAS-Research Center for Mind, Life and Society, Department of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
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- Department of Linguistics, The University of Sydney
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- Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science & Semiotics, Aarhus University
- Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University
- Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego
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- Section for Cognitive Systems, DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego
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- Research Unit for Robophilosophy and Integrative Social Robotics, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University
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- Discourse and Rhetoric Group, Loughborough University
- Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics
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- Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science & Semiotics, Aarhus University
- Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
- Santa Fe Institute
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- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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