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Creations of the Mind
Theories of Artifacts and their Representation
Edited by Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence
372 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-925099-8
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Paperback
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14 June 2007
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- 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.
Contributors: John R. Searle, Richard E. Grandy, Crawford L. Elder, Amie L. Thomasson, Jerrold Levinson, Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, Dan Sperber, Hilary Kornblith, Paul Bloom, Bradford Z. Mahon, Alfonso Caramazza, Jean M. Mandler, Deborah Kelemen, Susan Carey, Frank C. Keil, Marissa L. Greif, Rebekkah S. Kerner, James L. Gould, Marc D. Hauser, Laurie R. Santos, Steven Mithen
Readership: Scholars and students working in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics; scientists working on human cognition and its development (including psychologists,
anthropologists, and biologists)
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Edited by Eric Margolis, University of Wisconsin - Madison, and Stephen Laurence, University of Sheffield Contributors:
Paul Bloom, Department of Psychology, Yale University
Alfonso Caramazza, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Susan Carey, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Crawford L. Elder, Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut
James L. Gould, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Richard E. Grandy, Department of Philosophy, Rice University
Marissa L. Greif, Department of Psychology
and Brain Sciences, Duke University
Marc D. Hauser, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Frank C. Keil, Department of Psychology, Yale University
Deborah Kelemen, Department of Psychology, Boston University
Rebekkah S. Kerner, Department of Psychology, Yale University
Hilary Kornblith, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts
Jerrold Levinson, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park
Bradford Z. Mahon, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Barbara C. Malt, Department of Psychology, Lehigh University
Jean M. Mandler, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
Steven Mithen, Department of Archaeology,
University of Reading
Laurie R. Santos, Department of Psychology, Yale University
John R. Searle, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Steven A. Sloman, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University
Dan Sperber, CNRS and Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
Amie L. Thomasson, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami
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Introduction
PART I: METAPHYSICS
John R. Searle: Social Ontology and the Philosophy of Society
Richard E. Grandy: Artifacts: Parts and Principles
Crawford L. Elder: On the Place of Artifacts in Ontology
Amie L. Thomasson: Artifacts and Human Concepts
Jerrold Levinson: Artworks as Artifacts
PART II: CONCEPTS AND CATEGORIES
Barbara C. Malt and Steven A. Sloman: Artifact Categorization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Dan Sperber: Seedless Grapes: Nature and Culture
Hilary Kornblith: How to Refer to Artifacts
Paul Bloom: Water as an Artifact Kind
Bradford Z. Mahon and Alfonso Caramazza: The Organization and Representation of Conceptual Knowledge in the Brain: Living Kinds and Artifacts
PART III: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Jean M. Mandler: The Conceptual Foundations of Animals and Artifacts
Deborah Kelemen and Susan Carey: The Essence of Artifacts: Developing the Design Stance
Frank C. Keil, Marissa L. Greif, and Rebekkah S. Kerner: A World Apart: How Concepts of the Constructed World are Different in Representation and in Development
PART IV: EVOLUTION
James L. Gould: Animal Artifacts
Marc D. Hauser and Laurie R. Santos: The Evolutionary Ancestry of our Knowledge of Tools: From Percepts to Concepts
Steven Mithen: Creations of Pre-Modern Human Minds: Stone Tool Manufacture and Use by Homo Habilis, Heidelbergensis and Neanderthalensis
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