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

Other author McCormack, Teresa.
Other author Hoerl, Christoph.
Other author Butterfill, Stephen A. (Stephen Andrew)
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Descriptionix, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Cognition.
Causation.
Tool use in animals.
Tools--Social aspects.
Cognition and culture.

SeriesConsciousness and self-consciousness
Consciousness and self-consciousness. ^A489480
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 ... [et al.] -- Tool use and the representation of peripersonal space in humans / Charles Spence.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011025486
ISBN9780199571154 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0199571155 (hc : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks BF311 .T653 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold