1st Edition
The Understanding of Causation and the Production of Action From Infancy to Adulthood
By Peter Anthony White
Copyright 1995
332 Pages
by
Psychology Press
332 Pages
by
Psychology Press
332 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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This text is an attempt to trace out a line of development in the understanding of how things happen, from origins in infancy to mature forms in adulthood. There are two distinct but related ways in which people understand things as happening, denoted by the terms "causation" and "action". This book is concerned with both.; The central claim and organizing principle of the book is that, by the end... Read more
Ideas about causation and action in philosophy; origins and early development; the child's understanding of action and causation in the realm of human behaviour; the child's understanding of action and causation in the physical world; the theory of action in adulthood; regularity-based models of causal judgement; other approaches to adult causal understanding; the naive theorist and causal powers - a synopsis.
Biography
Peter Anthony White
