Participatory Sense-Making and the Narrative Practice Hypothesis

Abstract

Both explanations of social cognition in terms of Theories of Mind (including simulation theory) and those in terms of a Narrative Practice are born from a perspective in which social cognition requires a very high level of mediation (i.e. the distance between the direct components of a cognitive activity and its meaning). This may be because they are focused on our capacity to explain and predict actions in terms of reasons.