Short description:

The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping comprises 37 chapters by an international team of leading scholars. An outstanding survey of a vibrant and emerging field, it will be of great interest to those studying and researching philosophy of psychology, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of mind and applied epistemology.

Long description:

Of all species, human beings are uniquely capable of coordinating on long-term, large-scale cooperative projects with unfamiliar and genetically unrelated others. According to the mindshaping hypothesis, this relies on mechanisms and practices like imitation, pedagogy, normative cognition, and narrative self-constitution, which shape us into expert coordinators, without requiring time consuming and epistemically fraught attempts to read each other?s minds. Mindshaping has been applied to many areas of inquiry, including game theory, shared agency, communication, the ontogeny of human cognition, the dissemination of scientific knowledge in popular media, mental illness, and the influence of social media technologies.

The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping is the first volume of its kind. Comprising 37 chapters by an international team of leading scholars, this Handbook is organised into seven sections:

• Mindshaping and coordination


• Mindshaping and cognitive psychology


• Mindshaping and normativity


• Mindshaping and epistemology


• Social and political dimensions of mindshaping


• Nonhuman mindshaping


• Mindshaping applied

Within these sections, key topics are addressed, including game theory, social signalling and shared agency, folk psychology, the emotions, language acquisition and memory, stereotyping and consciousness-raising, moral agency, self-knowledge, rationality, epistemic norms, primate sociality, human-elephant relations, artificial intelligence, mental illness and neurodiversity, aesthetic expression, and politics.

An outstanding survey of a vibrant and emerging field, The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping will be of great interest to those studying and researching philosophy of psychology, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and applied epistemology. It will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as cognitive psychology, sociology, and anthropology.

Table of Contents:

Notes on Contributors  General Introduction: Mindshaping as Socio-Cognitive Lynchpin  Tadeusz Wiesław Zawidzki and Rémi Tison  Part 1: Mindshaping and Coordination  1. Mindshaping and Shared Agency Ayana Samuel  2. Mindreading, Mindshaping, and Common Ground Adam Gies  3. Mindshaping for Belief Signaling Eric Funkhouser  4. Mindshaping, Coordination, and Intuitive Alignment Daniel Pérez-Zapata and Ian Apperly  5. Mindshaping and Strategic Learning Don Ross and Wynn C. Stirling  Part 2: Mindshaping and Cognitive Psychology  6. Mindshaping, Folk Psychology, and Cultural Institutions Marc Slors and Julian Kiverstein  7. Mindshaping and Active Inference Rémi Tison  8. Learning Folk Psychology: Mindshaping and Mindreading in Ontogeny Julia Wolf  9. Beyond Nativism and Empiricism: Mindshaping and Language Acquisition Matej Drobňák  10. Mindshaping Through Pretend Play Zuzanna Rucińska  11. Mindshaping and Emotion Trip Glazer  12. Episodic Memory as a Mindshaped Capacity Christopher Jude McCarroll and Nikola Andonovski  Part 3: Mindshaping and Normativity  13. Mindshaping and Rules Jaroslav Peregrin  14. Giving and Asking for Reasons as Mindshaping Ladislav Koreň  15. Mindshaping, Reasons-responsiveness, and Virtue Alessandra Tanesini  16. Mindshaping and the Embodiment of Rationality Enrico Petracca and James Grayot  17. Natural Born Jerks? Virtue Signaling and the Social Scaffolding of Human Agency Evan Westra and Daniel Kelly  Part 4: Mindshaping and Epistemology  18. Mindshaping and Epistemic Agency Kristina Musholt  19. Mindshaping, Belief and Epistemic Normativity Sam Wilkinson  20. First Person Authority and Mindshaping Fredrik Stjernberg  21. Becoming Brave: Character Trait Attribution, (Self-directed) Mindshaping, and Substantial Self-knowledge Leda Berio  22. Mindshaping and Self-deception Fernando Martínez-Manrique  Part 5: Social and Political Dimensions of Mindshaping  23. Stereotypes: Mindshaping and Mindreading Shannon Spaulding  24. Mindshaping and Constructing Kinds Mason Westfall  25. How Scientific Psychology Shapes Minds Devin Sanchez Curry  26. Politicizing Mindshaping Uwe Peters  27. Mindshaping as Empowerment: the Case of Consciousness-raising Michelle Maiese  Part 6: Nonhuman Mindshaping  28. Mindshaping and Conflict Management in Nonhuman Animals Laura Danón  29. Mindshaping in Nonhuman Great Apes Simon Fitzpatrick  30. Mindshaping in Human-Elephant Relations Dennis Papadopoulos and Brandon Tinklenberg  31. Mindshaping and AI: Will Mindshaping a Robot Create an Artificial Person? John Dorsch  32. Mindshaping and AI Emotion Recognition: A Dilemma Marianna Bergamaschi Ganapini  Part 7: Mindshaping Applied  33. Mindshaping Online: Strategic Signalling and Coordination Noise Colum Finnegan  34. Mindshaping and Narrative Devices Lucy Osler  35. Mindshaping and Neurodiversity: Challenges and Opportunities Derek Strijbos and Léon de Bruin  36. It Doesn't Feel Like Myself: A Mindshaping View on Self-illness Ambiguity Virginia Ballesteros, Víctor Fernández-Castro and Miguel Nú?ez de Prado-Gordillo  37. Psychotherapy as A Folk-psychological Practice: Therapeutic Mindreading and Mindshaping J. P. Grodniewicz.  Index