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World without weight : perspectives on an alien mind / Daniel Povinelli ; in collaboration with Nicholas G. Ballew [and eight others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Povinelli, Daniel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognition.
- Psychology, Comparative.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (374 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In every domain of reasoning humans deploy a wide range of intuitive 'theories' about how the world works. So are we alone in trying to make sense of the world by postulating theoretical entities to explain how the world works, or do we share this ability with other species? This is the focus of Povinelli's book.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Contributed Essays in Order of Appearance; Epigraphs; Epigraph Acknowledgments; 1 Weight as a Matter of Fact; 2 Dissecting Weight; 3 Weight Lifting; 4 Weight Sorting; 5 Weight as Impediment; 6 The Impact of Weight; 7 Close Imposters: Balance, Support, and Deformation; 8 Developing f (WEIGHT); 9 Some Heavy Lifting . . . Over Dinner; Afterword: World Without Apes?; References; Appendix I: Some Folk Psychological Challenges to the Objective Study of Ape Intelligence; Appendix II: Timeline of Experiments 1-29 with Group Megan; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M
- NO; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-162551-5
- 1-306-22448-9
- OCLC:
- 867050361
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