Title Tool use and causal cognition / edited by Teresa McCormack, Christoph Hoerl, and Stephen Butterfill

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 255 pages) : illustrations Series Consciousness and self-consciousness Consciousness and self-consciousness Contents Tool use and causal cognition: an introduction / Teresa McCormack, Christoph Hoerl, and Stephen Butterfill -- A philosopher looks at tool use and causal understanding / James Woodward -- The development of human tool use early in life / Marissa L. Greif and Amy Needham -- Through a floppy tool darkly: toward a conceptual overthrow of animal alchemy / Daniel J. Povinelli and Derek C. Penn -- Causal knowledge in corvids, primates, and children: more than meets the eye? / Amanda Seed, Daniel Hanus, and Josep Call -- The evolutionary origins of causal cognition: learning and using causal structures / Brian J. Edwards, Benjamin M. Rottman, and Laurie R. Santos -- Tool use, planning, and future thinking in children and animals / Teresa McCormack and Christoph Hoerl -- Representing causality / Christopher Peacocke -- Why do language use and tool use both count as manifestations of intelligence? / John Campbell -- Effects of brain damage on human tool use / Georg Goldenberg -- Human tool use: a causal role in plasticity of bodily and spatial representations / Lucilla Cardinali [and others] -- Tool use and the representation of peripersonal space in humans / Charles Spence Summary Does the study of tool use provide us with a distinctive or unique source of information about the causal cognition of tool users? This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on these issues with contributions from psychologists studying tool use and philosophers providing new analyses of the nature of causal understanding Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Cognition. Causation. Tool use in animals. Tools -- Social aspects Cognition and culture. Culture. Cognition Causality Culture Tool Use Behavior cognition. culture note. culture (concept) PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology. SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science. Culture Causation Cognition Cognition and culture Tool use in animals Tools -- Social aspects Form Electronic book Author McCormack, Teresa Hoerl, Christoph Butterfill, Stephen A. (Stephen Andrew) LC no. 2011025486 ISBN 9780191625435 0191625434 0191731250 9780191731259

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