Tool use and causal cognition

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

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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: McCormack, Teresa, Hoerl, Christoph, Butterfill, Stephen A. (Stephen Andrew)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Consciousness and self-consciousness.
Subjects:
Cognition.
Causation.
Tool use in animals.
Tools > Social aspects.
Cognition and culture.
Culture.
cognition.
culture note.
culture (concept)
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
Culture
Causation
Cognition
Cognition and culture
Tool use in animals
Tools > Social aspects
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 255 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191625435
0191625434
0191731250
9780191731259
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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