The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping

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Tadeusz Wiesław Zawidzki (The George Washington University, USA) Rémi Tison (George Washington University, USA)

The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping

Tadeusz Wiesław Zawidzki (The George Washington University, USA), Rémi Tison (George Washington University, USA)

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29 May 2025

Phenomenology & Existentialism; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Philosophy of mind; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Philosophy of science

Series: Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

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.

Edited by: Tadeusz Wiesław Zawidzki (The George Washington University USA), Rémi Tison (George Washington University, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9781032639192
ISBN 10: 1032639199
Series: Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 29 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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 Núñez de Prado-Gordillo 37. Psychotherapy as A Folk-psychological Practice: Therapeutic Mindreading and Mindshaping J. P. Grodniewicz. Index

Tadeusz Wiesław Zawidzki is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at George Washington University, USA. Zawidzki is the author or co-author of over 30 articles and book chapters on the philosophy of cognitive science, and author of two monographs: Dennett (2007) and Mindshaping (2013). He is founding member of George Washington University’s Mind-Brain Institute, administering its Mind/Brain Studies Minor. Rémi Tison is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at George Washington University, USA. Integrating insights from philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science and neuroscience, his research focuses on social cognition, social normativity, and communication.