Tool Use and Causal Cognition
Does the study of tool use provide us with a unique or distinctive source of information about the causal cognition of tool-users? This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on these issues with contributions from leading psychologists studying tool use and philosophers providing new analyses of the nature of causal understanding
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Hoerl, Christoph / Butterfill, Stephen
- ISBN: 978-0-19-957115-4
- EAN: 9780199571154
- Produktnummer: 22676627
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 255 S.
- Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.7 cm x D2.4 cm 556 g
- Gewicht: 556
Über den Autor
Teresa McCormack is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast. She was co-director of the AHRC-funded project on Causal Understanding based at the University of Warwick. Her research primarily addresses issues concerning children's temporal and causal cognition. She has published two co-edited interdisciplinary books: Time and Memory: Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychology (OUP, 2001), with C. Hoerl, and JointAttention and Communication (OUP, 2005), with N. Eilan, C. Hoerl, and J. Roessler. A further volume entitled Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding Causation, co-edited with C. Hoerl and S. Beck is forthcoming with OUP.Christoph Hoerl is Associate Professor (Reader) in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Between 2004 and 2008, he was co-director (with Teresa McCormack and Johannes Roessler) of the interdisciplinary AHRC Research Project 'Causal Understanding: Empirical and Theoretical Foundations for a New Approach'. With Teresa McCormack and Sarah Beck, he is co-editor of Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding Causation (OUP, forthcoming).Stephen Butterfill is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on philosophical issues in developmental psychology.
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