Tool use and causal cognition: An introduction
Teresa McCormack, Christoph Hoerl, Stephen Butterfill · PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) · 2011
This chapter begins with a discussion of the significance of studies of aspects of tool use in understanding causal cognition. It argues that tool use studies reveal the most basic type or causal understanding being put to use, in a way that studies that focus on learning statistical relationships between cause and effect or studies of perceptual causation do not. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.