Abstract
Folk Physics for Crows?
Highlights
It is remarkable to think that at the time of publication of Folk Physics for Apes (Povinelli, 2000), there were no studies on the causal understanding of birds
Research on New Caledonian (NC) crow cognition offers a chance to test the ubiquity of the central thesis of Folk Physics for Apes, that
The key question, is whether NC crows show the same limitation as chimpanzees, in that they attend to the regularities of the world, but do not infer the presence of unobservable causal forces
Summary
It is remarkable to think that at the time of publication of Folk Physics for Apes (Povinelli, 2000), there were no studies on the causal understanding of birds. Research on the cognition of NC crows offers one route towards testing whether Povinelli’s hypothesis holds for chimpanzees but, more generally, for other animals as well.
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