Tool use and causal cognition
By: edited by Teresa McCormack, Christoph Hoerl, and Stephen Butterfill
Series: Consciousness and self-consciousness
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780199571154
Subjects: Tool use in animals; Cognition and culture; Social aspects; Cognition; Causation; Tools
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.