Introduction
1. What is Social Interaction?
2. Theory Theory
3. Simulation Theory
4. Direct Perception and Interaction Theory
5. Scripts in the History of AI and Cognitive Psychology
6. Scripts and Social Forces in Sociology and Social Philosophy
7. Scripts in Social Cognition and Social Interaction
8. A New Script Approach
9. Scripts and Injustice in Social Interaction
10. A Case for Scripts in Interaction: Recognizing Emotions
11. Thinking further about Scripts
Biography
Gen Eickers is a research fellow in philosophy at the University of Bayreuth. Their work focuses on scripts, social interaction, emotion, and social norms, and their research is located at the intersections of philosophy of mind, social ontology, and social epistemology.
“Scripts have often been mentioned as important aspects of our social cognitive lives, but this is the first book to do them justice. This book shows just how central scripts are to social interaction, and how they supplant more traditional approaches.”
Suilin Lavelle, University of Edinburgh, UK
"Eickers’ book fluidly weaves together theories of social cognition, AI, and social philosophy. They use the meaningful connections between these disparate areas of research to persuasively argue that scripts are a powerful part of our social interactions. This book is a must-read for those interested in social cognition."
Shannon Spaulding, Professor of Philosophy, Oklahoma State University, USA
"One notable gap in understanding the entrenchment of oppression is the relationship between social structures and the attitudes and motivations of individuals that lead them to conform to them. Eickers’ book makes an original and important contribution to filling this gap, with emphasis on the neglected topic of social scripts."
Sally Haslanger, Ford Professor of Philosophy & Women’s and Gender Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
"A highly original and well-motivated proposal that social cognition consists in script-based, practical knowledge of context-sensitive and normatively constrained, temporally sequenced social interactions - an important corrective to the orthodox focus on representing causal factors inside individual minds."
Tadeusz Zawidzki, Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy, George Washington University, USA
