The Role of Intersubjectivity in Animal and Human Cooperation

Biological Theory

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-62

  Gärdenfors, Peter ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY COGNITIVE SCIENCE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

convention; cooperation; future goals; indirect altruism; intersubjectivity; prospective cognition; reciprocal altruism; symbolic language

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949284271     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/biot.2008.3.1.51     Document Type: Article

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