Title

Social Cognition And Social Robots

Keywords

Interaction; Phenomenology; Social cognition; Social robotics; Theory of mind

Abstract

Social robots are robots designed to interact with humans or with each other in ways that approximate human social interaction. It seems clear that one question relevant to the project of designing such robots concerns how humans themselves interact to achieve social understanding. If we turn to psychology, philosophy, or the cognitive sciences in general, we find two models of social cognition vying for dominance under the heading of theory of mind: theory theory (TT) and simulation theory (ST). It is therefore natural and interesting to ask how a TT design for a social robot would differ from the ST version. I think that a much more critical question is whether either TT or ST provide an adequate explanation of social cognition. There is a growing although still minority consensus that, despite their dominance in the debate about social cognition, neither TT nor ST, nor some hybrid version of these theories, offers an acceptable account of how we encounter and interact with one another. In this paper I Will give a brief review of the theory of mind debate, outline an alternative theory of social cognition based on an embodied interactive approach, and then try to draw out a few implications about social robotics. © John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Publication Title

Pragmatics and Cognition

Volume

15

Issue

3

Number of Pages

435-453

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.15.3.05gal

Socpus ID

38949134814 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/38949134814

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