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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

Table of Contents:
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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Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence...are to be highly commended for conceiving this volume in the first place, since artifacts have been virtually non-existent as a subject matter in Western philosophy. And they have done a good job with quality control. Beth Preston, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199250981
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Theories of Artifacts and their Representation
  • Width: 160 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199250987
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jun 2007
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 372
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 748 gr


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