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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.
Introduction ; Part I: Causal representation in animal cognition ; Part II: Causal understanding in na"ive physics ; Part III: Causal understanding in na"ive psychology ; Part IV: Causal understanding in na"ive biology ; Part V: Understanding social causality ; Part VI: The legitimacy of domain-specific causal understandings: philosophical considerations ; Part VII: Domain-general approaches to causal understanding ; Part VIII: Causal understanding in cross-cultural perspective ; Afterword ; Index
This book brings together approaches from disciplines such as comparative psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy to present the newest developments in the study of causal cognition and to discuss their different perspectives.