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Informationen zum Autor Teresa McCormack is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast. She was co-director of the AHRC-funded project on Causal Understanding based at the University of Warwick. Her research primarily addresses issues concerning children's temporal and causal cognition. She has published two co-edited interdisciplinary books: Time and Memory: Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychology (OUP, 2001), with C. Hoerl, and JointAttention and Communication (OUP, 2005), with N. Eilan, C. Hoerl, and J. Roessler. A further volume entitled Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding Causation, co-edited with C. Hoerl and S. Beck is forthcoming with OUP.Christoph Hoerl is Associate Professor (Reader) in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Between 2004 and 2008, he was co-director (with Teresa McCormack and Johannes Roessler) of the interdisciplinary AHRC Research Project 'Causal Understanding: Empirical and Theoretical Foundations for a New Approach'. With Teresa McCormack and Sarah Beck, he is co-editor of Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding Causation (OUP, forthcoming).Stephen Butterfill is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on philosophical issues in developmental psychology. Klappentext Does the study of tool use provide us with a unique or distinctive source of information about the causal cognition of tool-users? This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on these issues with contributions from leading psychologists studying tool use and philosophers providing new analyses of the nature of causal understanding Zusammenfassung Does the study of tool use provide us with a unique or distinctive source of information about the causal cognition of tool-users? This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on these issues with contributions from leading psychologists studying tool use and philosophers providing new analyses of the nature of causal understanding Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Teresa McCormack! Christoph Hoerl! & Stephen Butterfill: Tool Use and Causal Cognition: An Introduction; 2 Jim Woodward: A Philosopher Looks at Tool Use and Causal Understanding; 3 Melissa L. Greif & Amy Needham: The Development of Tool Use Early in Life; 4 Daniel Povinelli & Derek C. Penn: Through a Floppy Tool Darkly: Toward a Conceptual Overthrow of Animal Alchemy; 5 Amanda Seed! Daniel Hanus! & Josep Call: Causal Knowledge in Corvids! Primates and Children: More Than Meets the Eye?; 6 Brian J. Edwards! Benjamin M. Rottman! & Laurie R. Santos: The Evolutionary Origins of Causal Cognition: Learning and Using Causal Structures; 7 Teresa McCormack & Christoph Hoerl: Tool Use! Planning! and Future Thinking in Children and Animals; 8 Christopher Peacocke: Representing Causality; 9 John Campbell: Why Do Language and Tool Use Both Count as Manifestations of Intelligence?; 10 Georg Goldenberg: Effects of brain damage on human tool use; 11 Lucilla Cardinali! Claudio Brozzoli! Francesca Fras ...
