Folk Physics for Apes
The Chimpanzee's theory of how the world works
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 May 2003
- ISBN 9780198572190
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages408 pages
- Size 240x169x22 mm
- Weight 801 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables and figures 0
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Short description:
Folk Physics for Apes offers us a rare glimpse into the workings of another mind, examining how apes perceive and understand the physical world. Describing groundbreaking research, and fiercely challenging many long held assumptions, the book will have broad appeal to evolutionary psychologists, developmental psychologists, and those interested in the sub-disciplines of cognitive science (philosophy, anthropology).
MoreLong description:
From an early age, humans know a surprising amount about basic physical principles, such as gravity, force, mass, and shape. We can see this in the way that young children play, and manipulate objects around them. The same behaviour has long been observed in primates - chimpanzees have been shown to possess a remarkable ability to make and use simple tools. But what does this tell us about their inner mental state - do they therefore share the same understanding to that of a young child? Do they understand the simple, underlying physical principles involved? Though some people would say that they do, this book reports groundbreaking research that questions whether this really is the case.
Folk Physics for Apes challenges the assumptions so often made about apes. It offers us a rare glimpse into the workings of another mind, examining how apes perceive and understand the physical world - an understanding that appears to be both similar to, and yet profoundly different from our own. The book will have broad appeal to evolutionary psychologists, developmental psychologists, and those interested in the sub-disciplines of cognitive science (philosophy, anthropology). The book additionally offers for developmental psychologists some valuable new non-verbal techniques for assessing causal understanding in young children.
... reports groundbreaking research ... challenges the assumptions so often made about apes. It offers us a rare glimpse into the workings of another mind.
Table of Contents:
An initial word about 'folk physics'
Preface
Folk physics cannot be assumed
Escaping the argument by analogy
Causality, tool use, and folk physics: a comparative approach
The trap-tube problem
The trap-table problem
The inverted- and broken-rake problems
The flimsy-tool problem
The tool-insertion problem: the question of shape
The rope, hook, touching-stick, and related problems: the question of physical connection
The support problem: physical connection revisited
The bendable-tool and tool-construction problems: the question of tool modification
Toward a folk physics for chimpanzees
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