Creations of the Mind
Theories of Artifacts and their Representation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 June 2007
- ISBN 9780199250998
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages372 pages
- Size 280x150x20 mm
- Weight 570 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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
the papers in the collection are rich, clear, and well argued, and all of them deserve careful attention. The volume is an indispensible resource for both research and teaching in this promising and interdisciplinary field, a field that is only in its infancy and will surely grow in importance over the coming years.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART I: METAPHYSICS
Social Ontology and the Philosophy of Society
Artifacts: Parts and Principles
On the Place of Artifacts in Ontology
Artifacts and Human Concepts
Artworks as Artifacts
PART II: CONCEPTS AND CATEGORIES
Artifact Categorization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Seedless Grapes: Nature and Culture
How to Refer to Artifacts
Water as an Artifact Kind
The Organization and Representation of Conceptual Knowledge in the Brain: Living Kinds and Artifacts
PART III: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
The Conceptual Foundations of Animals and Artifacts
The Essence of Artifacts: Developing the Design Stance
A World Apart: How Concepts of the Constructed World are Different in Representation and in Development
PART IV: EVOLUTION
Animal Artifacts
The Evolutionary Ancestry of our Knowledge of Tools: From Percepts to Concepts
Creations of Pre-Modern Human Minds: Stone Tool Manufacture and Use by Homo Habilis, Heidelbergensis and Neanderthalensis
