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From: uczpanc@ucl.ac.uk (Andrew Carrick)
Subject: New book announcement
Message-ID: <1995Jul28.150745.25337@ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 15:07:45 GMT
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** New Book Announcement from UCL Press**
 
COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL ACTION

Rosaria Conte 
Christiano Castelfranchi 

Istituto di Psicologia, CNR, Roma 

Publication: June 1995
192pp 16 illustrations 
ISBN: 1-85728-186-1 
UK#32.00  HB


KEY FEATURES: 
* provides an interface for ideas in the social sciences and artificial 
intelligence on social action 
* Explains why cognition is necessary to explain social action and control 
but insufficient to account for it fully
* Provides a framework in which to model social action formally

DESCRIPTION:
This important book addresses the worlds of social science theory and 
artificial intelligence (AI). The book examines the interaction of cognitive 
factors and social influence in determining human action and discusses 
the implications for developments in AI and in social science methodology. 
The authors confront a number of questions familiar to the social scientist, 
broadly linked under the umbrella of the "micro-macro" link. They show how 
the cognitive framework is both necessary to account for social action and 
at the same time insufficient to explain it fully. In the spirit of their own 
interdisciplinary work on computational modelling of social action, they also 
show that the field of AI has much to say to the theoretical and methodological
 development of the social sciences on this issue.

This unique book addresses some of the most important current questions in the 
social sciences and artificial intelligence head-on. It will be a source of 
enlightenment and inspiration for researchers from cognitive science to 
sociology, and an important contribution to the debate on modelling social 
processes and multi-agent action. 

CONTENTS:
Introduction

PART 1 From structural preconditions to micro-level action Precognitive bases 
of social interaction
From precognitive conditions to social action: adaptive cognition 
PART 2 Others as inputs to one agent's goals
Adoption of others' goals
Adoption of others' interests
PART 3 Macro-social inputs to micro-level action: the case of norms 
The normative coin 
The route of norms in the mind
The normative influencing
PART 4 Closing the micro-macro circle: macro-level effects as emergent inputs 
to micro level action
Toward a unified theory of goals and finalities
Emergent social finalities among cognitive systems: the case of cooperation 
Objective and normative foundations of collective agents 
Computational applications: conclusions and perspectives 

Appendix; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

THE AUTHORS: 
Both authors are based at the National Research Council of Italy in Rome. 
Rosaria Conte also teaches Cognitive Social Psychology at the University of 
Torino and Christiano Castelfranchi teaches Communication Science at the 
University of Sienna.


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