Grammar and Glamour of Cooperation

Szymon Wróbel is a Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Faculty of Artes Liberales of the University of Warsaw. He is a psychologist and philosopher researching contemporary social and political theory and philosophy of language. His latest book Deferring the Self has been published in 2013.

• Contents: Anticipatory planning – Competence – Constitutive rules – Decompositive strategy – Detached representations – Faculty of social cognition – Logic of cheating – Moral faculty – Multiple intelligences – Prisoners’ dilemma – Recursion – Regulative rules – Signals and symbols – Syntactocentrism – Zero-sum game.

«If one assumes the author’s task is to describe various competences of a man, the book can be seen as a concept of how particular facilities and competencies form the ‘glamour of cooperation’ that enables a man to function in natural and social environments. Then the cooperation category can refer to both – the way all these facilities cooperate, and how cooperation between people is organised in its cognitive, communicational and moral aspects. I highly recommend the unique collection of Szymon Wróbel’s essays Grammar and Glamour of Cooperation. Lectures on the Philosophy of Mind, Language and Action as an excellent introduction to contemporary debates in cognitive science.» (Professor Zbysław Muszyński , Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Lublin (Poland))