A symposium on Social Cognition and the Second Person in Human Interaction (Routledge, 2022) by Diana Pérez (University of Buenos Aires) and Antonio Gomila (University of the Balearic Islands)
This book is a unique exploration of the idea of the “second person” in human interaction, the idea that face-to-face interactions involve a distinctive form of reciprocal mental state attributions that mediates their dynamical unfolding. Challenging the view of mental attribution as a sort of “theory of mind”, Pérez and Gomila argue that the second person perspective of mental understanding is the conceptually, ontogenetically, and phylogenetically basic way of understanding mentality. Second person interaction provides the opportunity for the acquisition of concepts of mental states of increasing complexity. The book reviews the growing interest in a variety of second person phenomena, both in development and in adulthood, presenting research that shows how participants in human interaction attribute psychological states of a referentially transparent kind to each other. This review documents the spontaneous preference for face-to-face interaction, from eye contact to joint attention, from forms of vitality to communicative intentions, from interaction detection to joint action, and from synchrony to interpersonal coordination.
In the symposium we will specifically explore how the primacy of second-person interaction associates with a notion of autonomy focused on the idea of address.
Venue
Sala de Graus (1st Floor)
Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences
University of València
Av. Blasco Ibáñez 30
València (Spain)
Programme
Speakers
Francesco Consiglio (University of Valencia)
Josep E. Corbí (University of Valencia)
Juan Carlos Gómez (University of St. Andrews)
Antoni Gomila (University of the Balearic Islands)
Luca Marchetti (University of Genova)
Diana Pérez (University of Buenos Aires)
Johannes Roessler (University of Warwick)
Maria Paula Sabogal (Universitat de Barcelona)
Carolina Scotto (National University of Córdoba)
Chon Tejedor (University of València)
Teun van Son (University of Antwerp)
Jesús Vega (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Scientific Committee
Josep E. Corbí (University of València)
Antoni Gomila (University of the Balearic Islands)
Diana Pérez (University of Buenos Aires)
Organizers
Josep E. Corbí (University of València)
Miguel Gramage (University of Valencia)
Sandra Navalón (University of València)
Contact
corbybarra@gmail.com
Sponsors
Generalitat Valenciana via Autonomy as Address (CIPROM/2023/055) and Deceptive Representations (CISEJI/2023/51); Spanish Research Council via The Epistemology of Responsibility in Agency-Stultifying Situations (PID2022-139226NB-I00).
Special thanks to Jorge Guardiola for the invaluable logistic support.
