Causal cognition
Subtitle: a multidisciplinary debate
By: edited by Dan Sperber, David Premack, and Ann James Premack.
Contributors: Sperber, Dan.; Premack, David.; Premack, Ann J.
Series: Symposia of the Fyssen Foundation; Fyssen Foundation symposium.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 670
Subjects: Cognition -- Congresses.; Causation -- Congresses.; Attribution (Social psychology) -- Congresses.; Cognition and culture -- Congresses.
Description: An understanding of cause-effect relationships is fundamental to the study of cognition. In this book, outstanding specialists from comparative psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy present the newest developments in the study of causal cognition and discuss their different perspectives.

They reflect on the role and forms of causal knowledge, both in animal and human cognition, on the development of human causal cognition from infancy, and on the relationship between individual and cultural aspects of causal understanding. The result is a state-of-the-art, informative, insightful, and interdisciplinary debate aimed at the non-specialist.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Sixth Fyssen Symposium, held at the Pavillon Henri IV à St-Germain-en-Laye from 7 to 10 January 1993"--Pref.