Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-p2v8j Total loading time: 0.001 Render date: 2024-06-01T18:59:11.825Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Anthropomorphism, not depiction, explains interaction with social robots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2023

Dawson Petersen Open the ORCID record for Dawson Petersen [Opens in a new window]  and
Amit Almor
Dawson Petersen
Affiliation:
Linguistics Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA DHP1@email.sc.edu
Amit Almor
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Linguistics Program, Institute for Mind and Brain, Barnwell College, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA almor@sc.edu https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/psychology/our_people/directory/almor_amit.php
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

We question the role given to depiction in Clark and Fischer's account of interaction with social robots. Specifically, we argue that positing a unique cognitive process for handling depiction is evolutionarily implausible and empirically redundant because the phenomena it is intended to explain are not limited to depictive contexts and are better explained by reference to more general cognitive processes.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e41
Check for updates
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Airenti, G. (2018). The development of anthropomorphism in interaction: Intersubjectivity, imagination, and theory of mind. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2136.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Burks, A. W. (1949). Icon, index, and symbol. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 9(4), 673–689.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
de Saussure, F. (1983). Course in general linguistics, trans. by Harris, R. Open Court Classics.Google Scholar