The Shared World: Perceptual Common Knowledge, Demonstrative Communication, and Social Space

by Axel Seemann

A novel treatment of the capacity for shared attention, joint action, and perceptual common knowledge.

In The Shared World, Axel Seemann offers a new treatment of the capacity to perceive, act on, and know about the world together with others. Seemann argues that creatures capable of joint attention stand in a unique perceptual and epistemic relation to their surroundings; they operate in an environment that they, through their communication...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262039796
• ISBN13: 9780262039796
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.3"