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Does the study of tool use provide us with a unique or distinctive source of information about the causal cognition of tool-users? This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on these issues with contributions from leading psychologists studying tool use and philosophers providing new analyses of the nature of causal understanding

Brings together psychological and philosophical perspectives on the nature and significance of joint attention. This volume explores the idea that joint attention has a key foundational role to play in the emergence of communicative abilities, psychological understanding, and, possibly, in the very capacity for objective thought.

A team of leading philosophers and psychologists present a fresh analysis of the connections between causal relations and counterfactual judgments. They examine the cognitive underpinnings of causal and counterfactual reasoning, and the impact of empirical work in cognition on philosophical concerns about causation and counterfactuals.

In recent years there has been much psychological and neurological work purporting to show that consciousness and self-awareness play no role in causing actions, and indeed to demonstrate that free will is an illusion. The essays in this volume subject the assumptions that motivate such claims to sustained interdisciplinary scrutiny.

Brings together psychological and philosophical perspectives on the nature and significance of joint attention. This volume explores the idea that joint attention has a key foundational role to play in the emergence of communicative abilities, psychological understanding, and, possibly, in the very capacity for objective thought.

There has been much psychological and neurological work purporting to show that consciousness and self-awareness play no role in causing actions. The essays in this volume subject the assumptions that motivate such claims to sustained interdisciplinary scrutiny.

Leading philosophers and psychologists offer a rigorous assessment of the commonsense view that perceptual experience is an immediate awareness of mind-independent objects. They examine the nature of perception, its role in the acquisition of knowledge, the role of causation in perception, and how perceptual understanding develops in humans.

Leading philosophers and psychologists offer a rigorous assessment of the commonsense view that perceptual experience is an immediate awareness of mind-independent objects. They examine the nature of perception, its role in the acquisition of knowledge, the role of causation in perception, and how perceptual understanding develops in humans.

The 15 essays in this collection throw light on central issues in the study of the mind by uniting psychological and philosophical approaches dealing with the connection between temporal representation and memory.

The 15 essays in this collection throw light on central issues in the study of the mind by uniting psychological and philosophical approaches dealing with the connection between temporal representation and memory.

A team of leading philosophers and psychologists present a fresh analysis of the connections between causal relations and counterfactual judgments. They examine the cognitive underpinnings of causal and counterfactual reasoning, and the impact of empirical work in cognition on philosophical concerns about causation and counterfactuals.