The Understanding of Causation and the Production of Action: From Infancy to Adulthood Hardcover - 1995
by Peter Anthony White
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There are close links between the study of action and causation in psychology and philosophy.
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This book is an attempt to trace out a line of development in the understanding of how things happen from origins in infancy to mature forms of adulthood. There are two distinct but related ways in which people understand things as happening, denoted by the terms "causation" and "action". The book is concerned with both. The central claim and organising principle of the book is that, by the end of the second year of life, children have differentiated two core theories of how things happen. These theories deal with causation and action. The two theories have a common point of origin in the infant's experience of producing actions, but thereafter diverge, both in content and realm of application. Once established, the core theories of causation and action never change, but form a permanent metaphysical underpinning on which subsequent developments in the understanding of how things happen are erected. The story of development is therefore largely the story of how further concepts become attached to and integrated with the core theories. Although the developmental and adult literatures on causal understanding appear at first glance to have little in common, in fact this appearance is illusory, and the idea of two theories helps to bring the two literatures in contact with each other. The book begins with a survey of the main philosophical ideas about causation and action. Following this the possible origins of understanding in infancy are reviewed, and separate chapters then deal with the development of understanding of action and causation through childhood. This is then linked to the adult understanding of action and causation, and the literature on adult causal attribution and causaljudgement is reviewed from this perspective.
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- Title The Understanding of Causation and the Production of Action: From Infancy to Adulthood
- Author Peter Anthony White
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 332
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Psychology Press
- Date February 1, 1995
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780863773419 / 0863773419
- Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 6.08 x 1.02 in (22.91 x 15.44 x 2.59 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 155
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