Thursday, 3 January 2013

Castelfranchi

Castelfranchi

Cristiano started collaborating with the Institute of Psychology of the National Research Council (IPCNR, now ISTC-CNR) during the final years of his undergraduate degree, and he became a permanent researcher there in 1971. In those early years his interests were divided between two main topics: the pragmatics and semantics of natural language (with D. Parisi), with an emphasis on generative linguistics and how explicit representations of mental states (goals and beliefs) determine language understanding, and the analysis and prevention of mental disease with non-constrictive methods (with F. Basaglia and R. Misiti), which was instrumental to the legal reform of the national psychiatric system in Italy in 1978.His theoretical approach was focused since the onset on defining an operational notion of goal, partially inspired by progresses in cybernetics and control theory, in sharp contrast with the more vague and affective notion of “motivation”, traditionally employed in cognitive and social psychology at that time. Defining goals as anticipatory representations of world-states capable of guiding the agent’s behavior proved extremely helpful in understanding language, and it became soon clear to him that this notion was equally crucial in understanding social phenomena in general, as well as in elucidating the cognitive structure of complex emotions.

Castelfranchi

Castelfranchi

Castelfranchi

Castelfranchi

Castelfranchi

Castelfranchi

Castelfranchi

Castelfranchi

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