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The tool instinct

Osiurak, François‏, author.

The tool instinct

Osiurak, François‏, author.

9781119720348

9781119720324

9781119720331

London : ISTE, Ltd. ; London : Wiley, 2020.

1 online resource (237 pages)

Cognitive Science Series

Cognitive science series.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- I.1. The purpose -- I.2. The subject -- I.3. The route -- I.3.1. Physical anthropology and social anthropology -- I.3.2. Social anthropology and behavioral anthropology -- I.3.3. Psychology -- I.3.4. Psychologies -- I.3.5. Cognitive anthropology -- I.4. The project -- I.4.1. Epistemology, theory and empirical evidence -- I.4.2. Continuity versus discontinuity -- I.5. Towards instinct -- 1. The Tool With a Capital T -- 1.1. Defining the Tool: the behavioral reality -- 1.2. Blinded by tools

1.3. From analogy to specificities -- 1.4. The select club of animal users -- 1.5. In-defining the Tool: cognitive reality -- 1.5.1. The absence of boundaries between tool use, tool making and construction -- 1.5.2. Tool use: a fragile definition -- 1.6. Conclusion -- 2. Instinct -- 2.1. Tools not necessary for survival -- 2.1.1. The necessity hypothesis -- 2.1.2. An intrinsic and non-extrinsic pressure -- 2.1.3. The Tool, useful but not necessary for survival -- 2.2. Digging your own ditches to cross -- 2.2.1. At the root of our own problems -- 2.2.2. The illusion of technological progress

2.2.3. Telefantasies -- 2.3. From appetence to instinct -- 2.3.1. On the instinct -- 2.3.2. The hand and the tool: the Baldwin effect -- 2.4. Conclusion -- 3. The Myth of Manual Work -- 3.1. Gestum ago, ergo instrumentis munio -- 3.1.1. From popular beliefs to metatheories -- 3.1.2. The manipulation-based approach -- 3.2. The myth of motor programs -- 3.2.1. Empirical data -- 3.2.2. Theoretical and epistemological reflection -- 3.3. Instrumentis munio, ergo gestum ago -- 3.3.1. Tool incorporation and object-object manipulation -- 3.3.2. Primate prehension system: recycled mechanism

3.4. Conclusion -- 4. A World Without a Technical Solution -- 4.1. The reason for the Tool -- 4.1.1. Apraxia -- 4.1.2. Tool use and mechanical problem solving -- 4.2. The technical transfer -- 4.2.1. Absence of transfer in animals -- 4.2.2. No transfer after brain damage -- 4.3. Beyond manipulation -- 4.3.1. Simple versus complex tools -- 4.3.2. Counterintuition -- 4.4. Mechanical knowledge -- 4.4.1. Inaccuracy and magic -- 4.4.2. Understanding the unexplainable -- 4.5. Technical reasoning and dialectics -- 4.5.1. From essentialism to phenomenology

4.5.2. First movement of dialectics: from problem to solution -- 4.5.3. Second movement of dialectics: from solution to problem -- 4.5.4. Analogy and causality -- 4.6. Reasoning and dynamism -- 4.6.1. Toward the ideomotor approach -- 4.6.2. Diagnosis, adjustment and fixing -- 4.7. Conclusion -- 5. Reasoning versus Planning -- 5.1. Executive functions -- 5.1.1. Definitions -- 5.1.2. What about the role of executive functions? -- 5.1.3. What can we do without executive functions? -- 5.2. Reasoning versus planning -- 5.2.1. The amalgam -- 5.2.2. Planning and reasoning: two orthogonal capacities

5.2.3. Empirical evidence from neuropsychology

Humans use countless tools and are constantly creating new ones. We are so prone to materiality that the changes we implement in our environment could put our very survival at stake. It has therefore become necessary to question the cognitive origins of this materiality. The Tool Instinct examines this subject by diametrically setting aside the idea that tool use is limited to manual activity. It proposes an original perspective that surpasses a great number of false beliefs regarding the relationship between humans and tools. The author argues that the human tendency to create and use tools relies on our ability (one that may be unique to our species) to generate our own physical problems, thereby resulting in a reasoning that is directed towards our physical world.

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Human behavior.

Tools.

Behavior

Comportement humain.

PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology & Cognition.

Cognitive Psychology & Cognition.

PSYCHOLOGY.

Human behavior

Tools

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