Causal cognition : a multidisciplinary debate /

Understanding cause-effect relationships is fundamental to the study of cognition. This book presents the developments in the study of causal cognition and discuss their different perspectives. The result is an interdisciplinary debate aimed at the non-specialist.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Sperber, Dan, Premack, David, Premack, Ann J.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1995.
Series:	Fyssen Foundation symposium.
Subjects:	Cognition > Congresses. Causation > Congresses. Attribution (Social psychology) > Congresses. Cognition and culture > Congresses. Cognition. Social psychology. Philosophy. Cognition Psychology, Social Philosophy Cognition > Congrès. Attribution (Psychologie sociale) > Congrès. Cognition et culture > Congrès. Psychologie sociale. Philosophie. cognition. social psychology. philosophy. Social psychology Attribution (Social psychology) Causation Cognition and culture Kausales Denken Kognition Attribution Causaliteit. Cognitie. Attributie. Electronic books. Congress proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès.
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Table of Contents:

Instrumental action and causal representation / Anthony Dickinson and David Shanks
Causal knowledge in animals / Hans Kummer
Infants' knowledge of object motion and human action / Elizabeth S. Spelke, Ann Phillips, and Amanda L. Woodward
The acquisition of physical knowledge in infancy / Renée Baillargeon, Laura Kotovsky, and Amy Needham
A theory of agency / Alan M. Leslie
Distinguishing between animates and inanimates : not by motion alone / Rochel Gelman, Frank Durgin, and Lisa Kaufman
Intention as psychological cause / David Premack and Ann James Premack
Causal constraints on categories and categorical constraints on biological reasoning across cultures / Scott Altran
The growth of causal understandings of natural kinds / Frank C. Keil
On the origin of causal understanding / Susan Carey
Anthropology, psychology, and the meanings of social causality / Lawrence A. Hirschfeld
The looping effects of human kinds / Ian Hacking
Causality at higher levels / Philip Pettit
The role of content in the explanation of behaviour / Pierre Jacob
The role of coherencce in differentiating genuine from spurious causes / Patricia W. Cheng and Yunnwen Lien
Logic and language in causal explanation / Denis J. Hilton
Ancient Greek concepts of causation in comparativist perspective / Geoffrey Lloyd
The articulation of circumstance and causal understandings / Gilbert Lewis
Causal attribution across domains and cultures / Michael W. Morris, Richard E. Nisbett, and Kaiping Peng
Causal understandings in cultural representations : cognitive constraints on inferences from cultural input / Pascal Boyer.