Narrow-mindedness, dogmatism, intolerance and fanaticism are, to varying degrees, forms of confinement in a mental schema. To escape this, we need to gain access to "interpretative plurality": to become capable of "manipulating" our own representations and ideas to adopt, at least temporarily and in imagination, points of view other than our own. But what are the cerebral and mental foundations of such an ability in children and adults? Through what historical forms - cultural, religious, artistic - has it been embodied and developed? Can it be taught to children, and how?
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Symposium
Interpretative plurality. Historical and cognitive foundations of the notion of point of view
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