This book brings together approaches from disciplines such as comparative psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy to present the newest developments in the study of causal cognition and to discuss their different perspectives.

• Introduction ; Part I: Causal representation in animal cognition ; Part II: Causal understanding in na"ive physics ; Part III: Causal understanding in na"ive psychology ; Part IV: Causal understanding in na"ive biology ; Part V: Understanding social causality ; Part VI: The legitimacy of domain-specific causal understandings: philosophical considerations ; Part VII: Domain-general approaches to causal understanding ; Part VIII: Causal understanding in cross-cultural perspective ; Afterword ; Index

This book brings together approaches from disciplines such as comparative psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy to present the newest developments in the study of causal cognition and to discuss their different perspectives.

• Introduction ; Part I: Causal representation in animal cognition ; Part II: Causal understanding in na"ive physics ; Part III: Causal understanding in na"ive psychology ; Part IV: Causal understanding in na"ive biology ; Part V: Understanding social causality ; Part VI: The legitimacy of domain-specific causal understandings: philosophical considerations ; Part VII: Domain-general approaches to causal understanding ; Part VIII: Causal understanding in cross-cultural perspective ; Afterword ; Index