A lineage explanation of human normative guidance: the coadaptive model of instrumental rationality and shared intentionality.

Gonzalez Cabrera, Ivan (2022). A lineage explanation of human normative guidance: the coadaptive model of instrumental rationality and shared intentionality. Synthese, 200(6), p. 493. Springer Netherlands 10.1007/s11229-022-03925-2

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This paper aims to contribute to the existing literature on normative cognition by providing a lineage explanation of human social norm psychology. This approach builds upon theories of goal-directed behavioral control in the reinforcement learning and control literature, arguing that this form of control defines an important class of intentional normative mental states that are instrumental in nature. I defend the view that great ape capacities for instrumental reasoning and our capacity (or family of capacities) for shared intentionality coadapted to each other and argue that the evolution of this capacity has allowed the representation of social norms and the emergence of our capacity for normative guidance.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Philosophy

UniBE Contributor:

Gonzalez Cabrera, Ivan Dario

Subjects:

100 Philosophy

ISSN:

0039-7857

Publisher:

Springer Netherlands

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

29 Nov 2022 15:13

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:29

Publisher DOI:

10.1007/s11229-022-03925-2

PubMed ID:

36438177

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Coadaptation Conceptual space Goal-directed behavioral control Lineage explanation Reinforcement learning Social norm psychology

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/175260

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/175260

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