| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 255 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Consciousness and self-consciousness
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Consciousness and self-consciousness.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cognition.
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Cognition. |
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Causation.
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Causation. |
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Tool use in animals.
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Tool use in animals. |
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Tools -- Social aspects.
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Tools -- Social aspects. |
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Tools. |
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Cognition and culture.
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Cognition and culture. |
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Cognition. |
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Causality. |
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Culture. |
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Tool Use Behavior. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
McCormack, Teresa.
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Hoerl, Christoph.
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Butterfill, Stephen A. (Stephen Andrew)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tool use and causal cognition. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780199571154 (DLC) 2011025486 (OCoLC)732318641 |
| ISBN |
9780191625435 (electronic book) |
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0191625434 (electronic book) |
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9780199571154 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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0199571155 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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