Human thinking, shared intentionality, and egocentric biases

TY - JOUR

T1 - Human thinking, shared intentionality, and egocentric biases

AU - Peters, Uwe

PY - 2015/12

Y1 - 2015/12

N2 - The paper briefly summarises and critiques Tomasello’s (2014) A Natural History of Human Thinking. After offering an overview of the book, the paper focusses on one particular part of Tomasello’s proposal on the evolution of uniquely human thinking and raises two points of criticism against it. One of them concerns his notion of thinking. The other pertains to empirical findings on egocentric biases in communication.

AB - The paper briefly summarises and critiques Tomasello’s (2014) A Natural History of Human Thinking. After offering an overview of the book, the paper focusses on one particular part of Tomasello’s proposal on the evolution of uniquely human thinking and raises two points of criticism against it. One of them concerns his notion of thinking. The other pertains to empirical findings on egocentric biases in communication.

U2 - 10.1007/s10539-015-9512-0

DO - 10.1007/s10539-015-9512-0

M3 - Article

SN - 0169-3867

JO - BIOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY

JF - BIOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY

ER -