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Constructing agents: Rethinking the how and what in developmental theories of social understanding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2004

Victoria McGeer*
Affiliation:
Philosophy Program, RSSS, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australiahttp://www.sfu.ca/neurophilosophy/members/mcgeer/index.htm
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Abstract:

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Although I am broadly in sympathy with Carpendale & Lewis's (C&L's) version of social constructivism, I raise two issues they might address. One bears on the question of how social understanding develops: Is their resistance to individualism inappropriately combined with a resistance to internalism? A second question concerns a more radical implication of their view for what social understanding is.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004