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This book examines philosophical and scientific implications of Neodarwinism relative to recent empirical data. It develops explanations of social behavior and cognition through analysis of mental capabilities and consideration of ethical issues. It includes debate within cognitive science among explanations of social and moral phenomena from philosophy, evolutionary and cognitive psychology, neurobiology, linguistics, and computer science. The series Cognitive Science provides an original corpus of scholarly work that makes explicit the import of cognitive-science research for philosophical analysis. Topics include the nature, structure, and justification of knowledge, cognitive architectures and development, brain-mind theories, and consciousness.

Cognitive neuroscience. --- Cognitive psychology. --- Social perception. --- Cognition, Social --- Interpersonal perception --- Social cognition --- Interpersonal relations --- Perception --- Social cognitive theory --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Cognitive science --- Psychology --- Cognitive neuropsychology --- Neuropsychology

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This volume of articles comprises papers from the 25th annual conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), which was held at the University of Huddersfield, England, in July 2005. The theme of the conference was ‘Stylistics and Social Cognition’, and as usual at a PALA conference, this theme was interpreted very widely by the participants, as the reader of this book will no doubt conclude. At the heart of this volume, there is something of a reaction against the cognitive developments in stylistics, which might be seen as being in danger of privileging the individual interpretation of literature over something more social. The concern is to consider whether there is a more collective approach that could be taken to the meaning of text, and whether recent insights from cognitive stylistics could work with this idea of collectivity to define something we might call ‘commonality’ of meaning in texts. Stylistics and Social Cognition will be of interest to those working in stylistics and other text-analytic fields such as critical discourse analysis and those concerned with notions of interpretation, collective meaning and human communication.

Language and languages --- Rhetoric --- Social perception --- Social perception. --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Cognition, Social --- Interpersonal perception --- Social cognition --- Interpersonal relations --- Perception --- Social cognitive theory --- Linguostylistics --- Stylistics --- Style --- Social aspects --- Style. --- Social aspects. --- Cognitive psychology --- Social psychology --- Stilistics

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Social perception. --- Evolutionary psychology --- Perception sociale --- Psychologie évolutionniste --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social --- #KVHB:Evolutionaire psychologie --- #KVHB:Sociale psychologie --- Psychologie évolutionniste --- Social psychology --- Social perception --- Cognition, Social --- Interpersonal perception --- Social cognition --- Interpersonal relations --- Perception --- Social cognitive theory --- Psychology --- Human evolution --- Social aspects

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Drawing from the fields of rhetoric, cultural studies, literature, and folkloristics, Kathleen Glenister Roberts argues that identity and the history of alterity in the West can be understood more clearly through narrative motifs. She provides analyses of these motifs including infanticide, universalism, the Tower of Babel, the warrior Other, the noble savage, entropology, and the trickster. With current intellectual conflict as its subtext, this book posits that identity is always negotiated toward Otherness. Roberts interrogates narrative constructions of Western biases toward non-Western Others, with each chapter addressing a Western historical moment through an exemplary narrative. This process shows that by imagining and objectifying Others, Western cultures were creating their own Selves. In confronting the ethnocentrism of past historical moments, Roberts invites us to recognize it in the present—in a new way. Alterity and Narrative asks that we afford Others the ability to transcend their own ethnocentrism, and therefore avoid well-meaning but naïve calls for "cultural sensitivity."

Difference (Philosophy) in literature. --- Difference (Psychology) --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Prejudices --- Social perception --- Differential psychology --- Psychology, Differential --- Differentiation (Developmental psychology) --- Psychology --- Identity in literature --- Identity --- Philosophy --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Bias (Psychology) --- Prejudgments --- Prejudice --- Prejudices and antipathies --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Emotions --- Cognition, Social --- Interpersonal perception --- Social cognition --- Interpersonal relations --- Perception --- Social cognitive theory --- History. --- Religious aspects.