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A New Perspective On The Relationship Between Metacognition And Social Cognition: Metacognitive Concepts As Socio-Cognitive Tools |
Abstract | ||
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I defend an alternative to the two traditional accounts of the relationship between metacognition and social cognition: metacognition as primary versus social cognition as primary. These accounts have complementary explanatory vices and virtues. They also share a natural assumption: that interpretation in terms of mental states is "spectatorial", aiming exclusively for an objective description of the mental facts about self and others. I argue that if one rejects this assumption in favor of the view that interpretation in terms of mental states also plays important regulative roles with respect to minds and behavior, a new and superior conception of the relationship between metacognition and social cognition comes into view. On this conception, person-level metacognitive concepts are socio-cognitive tools that shape us into better cognitive agents and more predictable cognitive objects, thereby enhancing our abilities at social coordination. Mastery of these metacognitive concepts relies on subpersonal, non-conceptual, procedural metacognition. This reconceptualization of the relationship between metacognition and social cognition combines the complementary explanatory virtues of the two traditional conceptions, while avoiding their complementary explanatory vices. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2021 | 10.1007/s11229-019-02477-2 | SYNTHESE |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Social cognition, Metacognition, Metacognitive concepts, Procedural metacognition, Mental state attribution, Folk psychology as regulative, Socio-cognitive tools | Journal | 198 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
7 | 0039-7857 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 1 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Tadeusz W. Zawidzki | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |