Title Causal cognition : a multidisciplinary debate / edited by Dan Sperber, David Premack, and Ann James Premack

Published Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 670 pages) : illustrations Series Symposia of the Fyssen Foundation Fyssen Foundation symposium. Contents Instrumental action and causal representation / Anthony Dickinson and David Shanks -- Causal knowledge in animals / Hans Kummer -- Infants' knowledge of object motion and human action / Elizabeth S. Spelke, Ann Phillips, and Amanda L. Woodward -- The acquisition of physical knowledge in infancy / Renée Baillargeon, Laura Kotovsky, and Amy Needham -- A theory of agency / Alan M. Leslie -- Distinguishing between animates and inanimates : not by motion alone / Rochel Gelman, Frank Durgin, and Lisa Kaufman -- Intention as psychological cause / David Premack and Ann James Premack -- Causal constraints on categories and categorical constraints on biological reasoning across cultures / Scott Altran -- The growth of causal understandings of natural kinds / Frank C. Keil -- On the origin of causal understanding / Susan Carey -- Anthropology, psychology, and the meanings of social causality / Lawrence A. Hirschfeld -- The looping effects of human kinds / Ian Hacking -- Causality at higher levels / Philip Pettit -- The role of content in the explanation of behaviour / Pierre Jacob -- The role of coherencce in differentiating genuine from spurious causes / Patricia W. Cheng and Yunnwen Lien -- Logic and language in causal explanation / Denis J. Hilton -- Ancient Greek concepts of causation in comparativist perspective / Geoffrey Lloyd -- The articulation of circumstance and causal understandings / Gilbert Lewis -- Causal attribution across domains and cultures / Michael W. Morris, Richard E. Nisbett, and Kaiping Peng -- Causal understandings in cultural representations : cognitive constraints on inferences from cultural input / Pascal Boyer Summary Understanding cause-effect relationships is fundamental to the study of cognition. This book presents the developments in the study of causal cognition and discuss their different perspectives. The result is an interdisciplinary debate aimed at the non-specialist Analysis Cognition Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Cognition -- Congresses Causation -- Congresses Attribution (Social psychology) -- Congresses Cognition and culture -- Congresses Cognition. Social psychology. Philosophy. Cognition Psychology, Social Philosophy cognition. social psychology. philosophy. Social psychology Philosophy Attribution (Social psychology) Causation Cognition Cognition and culture Kausales Denken Kognition Attribution Causaliteit. Cognitie. Attributie. Genre/Form Electronic books proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Sperber, Dan Premack, David Premack, Ann J ISBN 9780191689093 0191689092

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