Joint attention and communication

Joint attention occurs when two (or more) individuals attend together to some object. It has been identified by psychologists as an early form of our joint engagement, and is thought provide us with understanding other minds that basic in sophisticated conceptual resources are not involved. Accordingly, it also attracted the interest philosophers. Moreover, a very recent trend psychological philosophical literature on consists developing suggestion holds partially virtue communication: because we share thoughts or feelings about object individual becomes joint. This paper unpacks communicative way accounts for attention's basicness.