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A little too technical: The threat of intellectualising technical reasoning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2020

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Ian Robertson*
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Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. ianrob@uow.edu.au
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Abstract

Osiurak and Reynaud (O&R) claim that research into the origin of cumulative technological culture has been too focused on social cognition and has consequently neglected the importance of uniquely human reasoning capacities. This commentary raises two interrelated theoretical concerns about O&R's notion of technical-reasoning capacities, and suggests how these concerns might be met.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e176
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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