Comparative metaphysics: the development of representing natural and normative regularities in human and non-human primates

摘要: How do human children come up to carve and think of the world around them in its most general abstract structure? And which degree are these forms viewing shared by other animals, notably non-human primates? In response questions what could be called comparative metaphysics, this paper discusses new evidence from developmental research argue for following picture: primates share a basic framework natural ontology: they about their surroundings essentialist ways terms kind objects constituted essential properties, generic as governed descriptive regularities. contrast, there is great divide when it comes how social environment: only then go on use thinking developing distinctively ontology, conceive surrounding socially prescriptive norms.