Causal cognition : a multidisciplinary debate
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Causal cognition : a multidisciplinary debate
（A Fyssen Foundation symposium）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1996
- : pbk
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First published in paperback 1996
Includes bibliographical references and index
"Sixth Fyssen Symposium, held at the Pavillon Henri IV at St-Germain-en-Laye from 7 to 10 January 1993"--Pref
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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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Causal representation in animal cognition
- Part II: Causal understanding in na"ive physics
- Part III: Causal understanding in na"ive psychology
- Part IV: Causal understanding in na"ive biology
- Part V: Understanding social causality
- Part VI: The legitimacy of domain-specific causal understandings: philosophical considerations
- Part VII: Domain-general approaches to causal understanding
- Part VIII: Causal understanding in cross-cultural perspective
- Afterword
- Index
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