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

Published:: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Physical Description:: ix, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: McCormack, Teresa, Hoerl, Christoph, and Butterfill, Stephen A. (Stephen Andrew)

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Consciousness and self-consciousness

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Tool Use and Causal Cognition: An Introduction / Stephen Butterfill -- 2.A Philosopher Looks at Tool Use and Causal Understanding / James Woodward -- 3.The Development of Human Tool Use Early in Life / Amy Needham -- 4.Through a Floppy Tool Darkly: Toward a Conceptual Overthrow of Animal Alchemy / Derek C. Penn -- 5.Causal Knowledge in Corvids, Primates, and Children: More Than Meets the Eye? / Josep Call -- 6.The Evolutionary Origins of Causal Cognition: Learning and Using Causal Structures / Laurie R. Santos -- 7.Tool Use, Planning, and Future Thinking in Children and Animals / Christoph Hoerl -- 8.Representing Causality / Christopher Peacocke -- 9.Why Do Langiiage Use and Tool Use Both Count as Manifestations of Intelligence? / John Campbell -- 10.Effects of Brain Damage on Human Tool Use / Georg Goldenberg -- 11.Human Tool Use: A Causal Role in Plasticity of Bodily and Spatial Representations / Alessandro Fame -- 12.Tool Use and the Representation of Peripersonal Space in Humans / Charles Spence.

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ISBN:

9780199571154 (alk. paper)
0199571155 (alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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