caa a22 4500 605448272 CHVBK 20210128100136.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10539-014-9447-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10539-014-9447-x Bullot Nicolas ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, 2109, North Ryde, NSW, Australia aut Agent tracking: a psycho-historical theory of the identification of living and social agents [Elektronische Daten] [Nicolas Bullot] To explain agent-identification behaviours, universalist theories in the biological and cognitive sciences have posited mental mechanisms thought to be universal to all humans, such as agent detection and face recognition mechanisms. These universalist theories have paid little attention to how particular sociocultural or historical contexts interact with the psychobiological processes of agent-identification. In contrast to universalist theories, contextualist theories appeal to particular historical and sociocultural contexts for explaining agent-identification. Contextualist theories tend to adopt idiographic methods aimed at recording the heterogeneity of human behaviours across history, space, and cultures. Defenders of the universalist approach tend to criticise idiographic methods because such methods can lead to relativism or may lack generality. To overcome explanatory limitations of proposals that adopt either universalist or contextualist approaches in isolation, I propose a philosophical model that integrates contributions from both traditions: the psycho-historical theory of agent-identification. This theory investigates how the tracking processes that humans use for identifying agents interact with the unique socio-historical contexts that support agent-identification practices. In integrating hypotheses about the history of agents with psychological and epistemological principles regarding agent-identification, the theory can generate novel hypotheses regarding the distinction between recognition-based, heuristic-based, and explanation-based agent-identification. The Author(s), 2014 Agent nationallicence Animacy nationallicence Apparent agency nationallicence Misidentification error nationallicence Heuristics nationallicence Identification nationallicence Psycho-historical theory nationallicence Tracking nationallicence Mechanism nationallicence Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/3(2015-05-01), 359-382 0169-3867 30:3<359 2015 30 10539 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-014-9447-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-014-9447-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bullot Nicolas ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, 2109, North Ryde, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/3(2015-05-01), 359-382 0169-3867 30:3<359 2015 30 10539