Tool use and causal cognition

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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCormack, Teresa
Other Authors: Hoerl, Christoph, Butterfill, Stephen A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2011, 2011
Series:Consciousness and self-consciousness / Consciousness and self-consciousness
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:ix, 255 p. ill
ISBN:9780191731259
0191731250