Causal Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Debate (Symposium of the Fyssen Foundation S.) - Hardcover

Sperber, Dan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198523149 ISBN 13: 9780198523147

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1995

Synopsis

Understanding cause-effect relationships is fundamental to the study of cognition. In this book, specialists from comparative psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy present recent developments in the study of causal cognition and discuss their different perspectives. The result is an interdisciplinary debate aimed at the non-specialist.

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Review

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. (Journal of Consumer 20:4, Dec 1997)

About the Author

D. Sperber is at C.R.E.A., C.N.R.S., Paris. D. Premack is at C.N.R.S., Paris.

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198523149
• ISBN 13: 9780198523147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 690