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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: tool instinct
  name:
    name part: Osiurak, François‏
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: London
    place:
      place term: London
    publisher: ISTE, Ltd.
    publisher: Wiley
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (237 pages)
  abstract: Humans use countless tools and are constantly creating new ones. We are so prone to materiality that the changes we implement in our environment could put our very survival at stake. It has therefore become necessary to question the cognitive origins of this materiality. The Tool Instinct examines this subject by diametrically setting aside the idea that tool use is limited to manual activity. It proposes an original perspective that surpasses a great number of false beliefs regarding the relationship between humans and tools. The author argues that the human tendency to create and use tools relies on our ability (one that may be unique to our species) to generate our own physical problems, thereby resulting in a reasoning that is directed towards our physical world.
  table of contents: Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- I.1. The purpose -- I.2. The subject -- I.3. The route -- I.3.1. Physical anthropology and social anthropology -- I.3.2. Social anthropology and behavioral anthropology -- I.3.3. Psychology -- I.3.4. Psychologies -- I.3.5. Cognitive anthropology -- I.4. The project -- I.4.1. Epistemology, theory and empirical evidence -- I.4.2. Continuity versus discontinuity -- I.5. Towards instinct -- 1. The Tool With a Capital T -- 1.1. Defining the Tool: the behavioral reality -- 1.2. Blinded by tools
  table of contents: 1.3. From analogy to specificities -- 1.4. The select club of animal users -- 1.5. In-defining the Tool: cognitive reality -- 1.5.1. The absence of boundaries between tool use, tool making and construction -- 1.5.2. Tool use: a fragile definition -- 1.6. Conclusion -- 2. Instinct -- 2.1. Tools not necessary for survival -- 2.1.1. The necessity hypothesis -- 2.1.2. An intrinsic and non-extrinsic pressure -- 2.1.3. The Tool, useful but not necessary for survival -- 2.2. Digging your own ditches to cross -- 2.2.1. At the root of our own problems -- 2.2.2. The illusion of technological progress
  table of contents: 2.2.3. Telefantasies -- 2.3. From appetence to instinct -- 2.3.1. On the instinct -- 2.3.2. The hand and the tool: the Baldwin effect -- 2.4. Conclusion -- 3. The Myth of Manual Work -- 3.1. Gestum ago, ergo instrumentis munio -- 3.1.1. From popular beliefs to metatheories -- 3.1.2. The manipulation-based approach -- 3.2. The myth of motor programs -- 3.2.1. Empirical data -- 3.2.2. Theoretical and epistemological reflection -- 3.3. Instrumentis munio, ergo gestum ago -- 3.3.1. Tool incorporation and object-object manipulation -- 3.3.2. Primate prehension system: recycled mechanism
  table of contents: 3.4. Conclusion -- 4. A World Without a Technical Solution -- 4.1. The reason for the Tool -- 4.1.1. Apraxia -- 4.1.2. Tool use and mechanical problem solving -- 4.2. The technical transfer -- 4.2.1. Absence of transfer in animals -- 4.2.2. No transfer after brain damage -- 4.3. Beyond manipulation -- 4.3.1. Simple versus complex tools -- 4.3.2. Counterintuition -- 4.4. Mechanical knowledge -- 4.4.1. Inaccuracy and magic -- 4.4.2. Understanding the unexplainable -- 4.5. Technical reasoning and dialectics -- 4.5.1. From essentialism to phenomenology
  table of contents: 4.5.2. First movement of dialectics: from problem to solution -- 4.5.3. Second movement of dialectics: from solution to problem -- 4.5.4. Analogy and causality -- 4.6. Reasoning and dynamism -- 4.6.1. Toward the ideomotor approach -- 4.6.2. Diagnosis, adjustment and fixing -- 4.7. Conclusion -- 5. Reasoning versus Planning -- 5.1. Executive functions -- 5.1.1. Definitions -- 5.1.2. What about the role of executive functions? -- 5.1.3. What can we do without executive functions? -- 5.2. Reasoning versus planning -- 5.2.1. The amalgam -- 5.2.2. Planning and reasoning: two orthogonal capacities
  table of contents: 5.2.3. Empirical evidence from neuropsychology
  note: François Osiurak.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Human behavior
  subject:
    topic: Tools
  subject:
    topic: Behavior
  classification: HM1033 .O75 2020
  classification: 155.7
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    origin info:
      publisher: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, ©2020
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    record creation date: 200418
    record change date: 20260214215747.6
    record identifier: in00004687406
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng