Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 565 g
Theories of Artifacts and Their Representation
Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 565 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-925099-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Description
- Specially commissioned essays on a hot topic
- Truly interdisciplinary approach; latest research in philosophy, cognitive science, developmental psychology, and cognitive anthropology
- Contributors are world experts in their fields
Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and their implications for the human mind. All the papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics concerned with the metaphysics of artifacts, our concepts of artifacts and the categories that they represent, the emergence of an understanding of artifacts in infants' cognitive development, as well as the evolution of artifacts and the use of tools by non-human animals. This volume will be a fascinating resource for philosophers, cognitive scientists, and psychologists, and the starting point for future research in the study of artifacts and their role in human understanding, development, and behaviour.
Zielgruppe
Scholars and students working in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, scientists working on human cognition and its development (including psychologists, anthropologists, and biologists)
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction
PART I: METAPHYSICS
Social Ontology and the Philosophy of Society, John R. Searle
Artifacts: Parts and Principles, Richard E. Grandy
On the Place of Artifacts in Ontology, Crawford L. Elder
Artifacts and Human Concepts, Amie L. Thomasson
Artworks as Artifacts, Jerrold Levinson
PART II: CONCEPTS AND CATEGORIES
Artifact Categorization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Barbara C. Malt and Steven A. Sloman
Seedless Grapes: Nature and Culture, Dan Sperber
How to Refer to Artifacts, Hilary Kornblith
Water as an Artifact Kind, Paul Bloom
The Organization and Representation of Conceptual Knowledge in the Brain: Living Kinds and Artifacts, Bradford Z. Mahon and Alfonso Caramazza
PART III: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
The Conceptual Foundations of Animals and Artifacts, Jean M. Mandler
The Essence of Artifacts: Developing the Design Stance, Deborah Kelemen and Susan Carey
A World Apart: How Concepts of the Constructed World are Different in Representation and in Development, Frank C. Keil, Marissa L. Greif, and Rebekkah S. Kerner
PART IV: EVOLUTION
Animal Artifacts, James L. Gould
The Evolutionary Ancestry of our Knowledge of Tools: From Percepts to Concepts, Marc D. Hauser and Laurie R. Santos
Creations of Pre-Modern Human Minds: Stone Tool Manufacture and Use by Homo Habilis, Heidelbergensis and Neanderthalensis, Steven Mithen
