1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping

Edited By Tadeusz Wiesław Zawidzki, Rémi Tison Copyright 2025
528 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

528 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Of all species, human beings are uniquely capable of coordinating on long-term, large-scale cooperative projects with unfamiliar and genetically unrelated others. According to the mindshaping hypothesis, this relies on mechanisms and practices like imitation, pedagogy, normative cognition, and narrative self-constitution, which shape us into expert coordinators, without requiring time consuming... Read more

Notes on Contributors

General Introduction: Mindshaping as Socio-Cognitive Lynchpin Tadeusz Wiesław Zawidzki and Rémi Tison

Part 1: Mindshaping and Coordination

1. Mindshaping and Shared Agency Ayana Samuel

2. Mindreading, Mindshaping, and Common Ground Adam Gies

3. Mindshaping for Belief Signaling Eric Funkhouser

4. Mindshaping, Coordination, and Intuitive Alignment Daniel Pérez-Zapata and Ian Apperly

5. Mindshaping and Strategic Learning Don Ross and Wynn C. Stirling

Part 2: Mindshaping and Cognitive Psychology

6. Mindshaping, Folk Psychology, and Cultural Institutions Marc Slors and Julian Kiverstein

7. Mindshaping and Active Inference Rémi Tison

8. Learning Folk Psychology: Mindshaping and Mindreading in Ontogeny Julia Wolf

9. Beyond Nativism and Empiricism: Mindshaping and Language Acquisition Matej Drobňák

10. Mindshaping Through Pretend Play Zuzanna Rucińska

11. Mindshaping and Emotion Trip Glazer

12. Episodic Memory as a Mindshaped Capacity Christopher Jude McCarroll and Nikola Andonovski

Part 3: Mindshaping and Normativity

13. Mindshaping and Rules Jaroslav Peregrin

14. Giving and Asking for Reasons as Mindshaping Ladislav Koreň

15. Mindshaping, Reasons-responsiveness, and Virtue Alessandra Tanesini

16. Mindshaping and the Embodiment of Rationality Enrico Petracca and James Grayot

17. Natural Born Jerks? Virtue Signaling and the Social Scaffolding of Human Agency Evan Westra and Daniel Kelly

Part 4: Mindshaping and Epistemology

18. Mindshaping and Epistemic Agency Kristina Musholt

19. Mindshaping, Belief and Epistemic Normativity Sam Wilkinson

20. First Person Authority and Mindshaping Fredrik Stjernberg

21. Becoming Brave: Character Trait Attribution, (Self-directed) Mindshaping, and Substantial Self-knowledge Leda Berio

22. Mindshaping and Self-deception Fernando Martínez-Manrique

Part 5: Social and Political Dimensions of Mindshaping

23. Stereotypes: Mindshaping and Mindreading Shannon Spaulding

24. Mindshaping and Constructing Kinds Mason Westfall

25. How Scientific Psychology Shapes Minds Devin Sanchez Curry

26. Politicizing Mindshaping Uwe Peters

27. Mindshaping as Empowerment: the Case of Consciousness-raising Michelle Maiese

Part 6: Nonhuman Mindshaping

28. Mindshaping and Conflict Management in Nonhuman Animals Laura Danón

29. Mindshaping in Nonhuman Great Apes Simon Fitzpatrick

30. Mindshaping in Human-Elephant Relations Dennis Papadopoulos and Brandon Tinklenberg

31. Mindshaping and AI: Will Mindshaping a Robot Create an Artificial Person? John Dorsch

32. Mindshaping and AI Emotion Recognition: A Dilemma Marianna Bergamaschi Ganapini

Part 7: Mindshaping Applied

33. Mindshaping Online: Strategic Signalling and Coordination Noise Colum Finnegan

34. Mindshaping and Narrative Devices Lucy Osler

35. Mindshaping and Neurodiversity: Challenges and Opportunities Derek Strijbos and Léon de Bruin

36. It Doesn't Feel Like Myself: A Mindshaping View on Self-illness Ambiguity Virginia Ballesteros, Víctor Fernández-Castro and Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo

37. Psychotherapy as A Folk-psychological Practice: Therapeutic Mindreading and Mindshaping J. P. Grodniewicz.

Index

Biography

Tadeusz Wiesław Zawidzki is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at George Washington University, USA. Zawidzki is the author or co-author of over 30 articles and book chapters on the philosophy of cognitive science, and author of two monographs: Dennett (2007) and Mindshaping (2013). He is founding member of George Washington University’s Mind-Brain Institute, administering its Mind/Brain Studies Minor.

Rémi Tison is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at George Washington University, USA. Integrating insights from philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science and neuroscience, his research focuses on social cognition, social normativity, and communication.