Tool Use and Causal Cognition

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 Joint Attention 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.

• 1. Tool Use and Causal Cognition: An Introduction ; 2. A Philosopher Looks at Tool Use and Causal Understanding ; 3. The Development of Tool Use Early in Life ; 4. Through a Floppy Tool Darkly: Toward a Conceptual Overthrow of Animal Alchemy ; 5. Causal Knowledge in Corvids, Primates and Children: More Than Meets the Eye? ; 6. The Evolutionary Origins of Causal Cognition: Learning and Using Causal Structures ; 7. Tool Use, Planning, and Future Thinking in Children and Animals ; 8. Representing Causality ; 9. Why Do Language and Tool Use Both Count as Manifestations of Intelligence? ; 10. Effects of brain damage on human tool use ; 11. Human tool-use: a causal role in plasticity of bodily and spatial representations ; 12. Tool-use and the representation of peripersonal space in humans