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The Understanding of Causation and the Production of Action - From Infancy to Adulthood (Paperback)
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The Understanding of Causation and the Production of Action - From Infancy to Adulthood (Paperback)
Series: Essays in Developmental Psychology
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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 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 in 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 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 causal judgement is reviewed from this
perspective.
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