The Cognitive Foundations of Group Attitudes and Social Interaction

✍ Scribed by Andreas Herzig, Emiliano Lorini (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 208
• Series: Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality 5
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a widely interdisciplinary approach to investigating important questions surrounding the cognitive foundations of group attitudes and social interaction. The volume tackles issues such as the relationship between individual and group attitudes, the cognitive bases of group identity and group identification and the link between emotions and individual attitudes.

This volume delves into the links between individual attitudes (such as beliefs, goals and intentions) and how they are reflected in shared attitudes where common belief, collective acceptance, joint intentions, and group preferences come into play. It pursues answers to the connections between trust and beliefs, goals and intentions and attempts to investigate questions such as: does trust have an affective component and how it may relate to hope and fear? The volume also scrutinizes game theory and questions whether it can satisfactorily explain and model social interaction and if there may be any concepts which are not addressed by the current theory.

Contributors are derived from disciplines including philosophy, economics, psychology, logic and computer science. Interdisciplinary in scope and comprehensive detail, this volume integrates a variety of approaches – philosophical, psychological and artificial intelligence – to strategic, normative and emotional aspects of social interaction.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
On Help and Interpersonal Control....Pages 1-23
Healing Social Sciences’ Psycho-phobia: Founding Social Action and Structure on Mental Representations....Pages 25-57
Analytical Decomposition of Trust in Terms of Mental and Social Attitudes....Pages 59-74
On Modal Logics of Group Belief....Pages 75-106
Logic of Promotion and Demotion....Pages 107-120
On the Attitude of Trust: A Formal Characterization of Trust, Distrust, and Associated Notions....Pages 121-132
The Topology of Common Belief....Pages 133-152
Social Emotions from the Perspective of the Computational Belief-Desire Theory of Emotion....Pages 153-176
Reasoning with Normative Systems....Pages 177-190
An Agent Based Model of Camorra: Comparing Punishment and Norm-Based Policies in Contrasting Illegal Activities....Pages 191-202

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)