Timothy P. Racine

List of John Benjamins publications in which Timothy P. Racine is involved.

Titles

Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language

Edited by Ad Foolen, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine and Jordan Zlatev

The close relationship between motion (bodily movement) and emotion (feelings) is not an etymological coincidence. While moving ourselves, we move others; in observing others move – we are moved ourselves. The fundamentally interpersonal nature of mind and language has recently received due… read more

[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 6] 2012. viii, 492 pp. | open access

The Shared Mind: Perspectives on intersubjectivity

Edited by Jordan Zlatev, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen

The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed “social cognition” through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 12] 2008. xiii, 391 pp.

Articles (6) | Order by:

Racine, Timothy P. 2012 Cognitivism, adaptationism and pointing Developments in Primate Gesture Research, Pika, Simone and Katja Liebal (eds.), pp. 165–180 | Article

I analyze the conceptual foundations of Tomasello and colleagues’ influential theory of the origins of pointing gestures in an attempt to clarify its aims and limit its scope. After some preliminary remarks, I consider the postulated cognitive mechanisms that are claimed to be the developmental… read more

Racine, Timothy P., Tyler J. Wereha and David A. Leavens 2012 Primates, motion and emotion: To what extent nonhuman primates are intersubjective and why Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language, Foolen, Ad, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine and Jordan Zlatev (eds.), pp. 221–242 | Article

Focussing on the capacity for joint attention and communication, we review research that demonstrates the important and often overlooked role that emotion and motion may play in intersubjectivity and consciousness of self and others. We discuss the source of the continuing belief that such skills… read more

Susswein, Noah and Timothy P. Racine 2008 7. Sharing mental states: Causal and definitional issues in intersubjectivity The Shared Mind: Perspectives on intersubjectivity, Zlatev, Jordan, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen (eds.), pp. 141–162 | Article

In this chapter we analyse ‘intersubjectivity’ and related psychological concepts. We focus on distinguishing between causal and definitional issues in early social development, between categorical explanations of what an organism is doing and causal explanations of how or why it is doing it. We… read more

Zlatev, Jordan, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen 2008 1. Intersubjectivity: What makes us human? The Shared Mind: Perspectives on intersubjectivity, Zlatev, Jordan, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article

Carpendale, Jeremy I.M., Charlie Lewis, Ulrich Müller and Timothy P. Racine 2007 Constructing perspectives in the social making of minds Making Minds: The shaping of human minds through social context, Hauf, Petra and Friedrich Försterling (eds.), pp. 163–178 | Article

Carpendale, Jeremy I.M., Charlie Lewis, Ulrich Müller and Timothy P. Racine 2005 Constructing perspectives in the social making of minds Making Minds II, Hauf, Petra (ed.), pp. 341–358 | Article

The ability to take others’ perspectives on the self has important psychological implications. Yet the logically and developmentally prior question is how children develop the capacity to take others’ perspectives. We discuss the development of joint attention in infancy as a rudimentary form of… read more