Research Catalog

Title

Causal cognition : a multidisciplinary debate / edited by Dan Sperber, David Premack, and Ann James Premack.

Publication

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sperber, Dan.
• Premack, David.
• Premack, Ann J.

Description

xx, 670 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Symposia of the Fyssen Foundation

Uniform Title

Fyssen Foundation symposium.

Subject

• Cognition > Congresses
• Causation > Congresses
• Attribution (Social psychology) > Congresses
• Cognition and culture > Congresses

Note

• "Sixth Fyssen Symposium, held at the Pavillon Henri IV à St-Germain-en-Laye from 7 to 10 January 1993"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 96-15401

ISBN

0198523149

LCCN

94028383

OCLC

30735193

Title

Causal cognition : a multidisciplinary debate / edited by Dan Sperber, David Premack, and Ann James Premack.

Imprint

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

Series

Symposia of the Fyssen Foundation

Fyssen Foundation symposium.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Sperber, Dan.

Premack, David.

Premack, Ann J.

Research Call Number

JFE 96-15401