ABSTRACT

Research in social cognition aims to illuminate how agents can understand, communicate, and interact with other agents. When defining socio-cognitive abilities, standard cognitivist approaches tend to require demanding representational information processing. Thereby, they describe rather ideal cases. However, interdisciplinary research indicates multiple forms of how socio-cognitive abilities can be realized. Recent minimal approaches offer notions accommodating different kinds of cognitive processing. Nevertheless, the introduction of minimal cases of cognition raises new questions of how to account for commonalities and differences with respect to the standard concepts. It seems to be a widespread strategy to adapt ideas of a two-system approach in order to distinguish less demanding instances from more demanding cases. This paper critically explores such an interpretation of a two-system approach and argues that a dichotomous understanding fails to capture the actual diversity of cognitive processes.

摘要

社会认知研究旨在阐明代理如何理解，交流和与其他代理互动。在定义社会认知能力时，标准的认知主义方法往往要求苛刻的代表性信息处理。因此，他们描述了比较理想的情况。但是，跨学科研究表明如何实现社会认知能力的多种形式。最近的最小化方法提供了适应不同种类的认知处理的概念。然而，引入最小的认知案例提出了新的问题，即如何考虑标准概念的共同点和差异。似乎应该采用两种系统方法的思想来区分要求较低的实例和要求较高的实例，这是一种普遍的策略。