The Single-Minded Animal
Shared Intentionality, Normativity, and the Foundations of Discursive Cognition
Preston Stovall
The Single-Minded Animal
Shared Intentionality, Normativity, and the Foundations of Discursive Cognition
Preston Stovall
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This book provides an account of discursive or reason-governed cognition by synthesizing research in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and evolutionary anthropology.
“Stovall fills an important hole in the Sellars-Brandom account of normativity, the question of how normative rationality is acquired developmentally, by appealing to work in cognitive science on collective intentionality and sensitivity to norms, and by introducing a novel analysis of collective planning talk. This is an intriguing and sophisticated account of a central issue in philosophy.”
Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, USA
"Stovall’s is one of the very few accounts seeking to connect empirical and philosophical approaches to human cognition that gives normativity pride of place. This is an enormously important book that could potentially lead the philosophy of cognitive science to new and productive insights."
Michael Tomasello, Duke University, USA
"Preston Stovall's book is rich in details and covers in broad strokes some very important themes within philosophy of language and intentionality."
R. Krishnaswamy, The Philosophical Quarterly
“The Single-Minded Animal is an ambitious, wide-ranging, and admirably interdisciplinary book, taking on a vast range of philosophical and scientific work . . . while we may indeed be single-minded animals, in his sense, in this impressive book, Stovall has shown us the virtue and fruitfulness of philosophical and scientific broad-mindedness.”
Brandon Beasley, Metascience
Preston Stovall is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy and Social Science at the University of Hradec Králové. He received his B.A. from Montana State University, his M.A. from Texas A&M University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He works in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, informed by a reading of the German idealists and the American pragmatists.