Causal Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Debate

Dan Sperber (Curatore)

David Premack (Curatore)

Oxford University Press, 1996

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.

• Curatore: Dan Sperber, David Premack
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Collana: Symposia of the Fyssen Foundation
• Anno: 1996
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 690 p.
• Dimensioni: 233 x 156 mm
• Peso: 970 gr.
• EAN: 9780198524021

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