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Product Description: Explanations seem to be a large and natural part of our cognitive lives. As Frank Keil and Robert Wilson write, "When a cognitive activity is so ubiquitous that it is expressed both in a preschooler's idle questions and in work that is the culmination of decades of scholarly effort, one has to ask whether we really have one and the same phenomenon or merely different cognitively based phenomena that are loosely, or even metaphorically, related...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a fully-searchable, complete text of the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) on a dual-platform CD-ROM. Since the 1970s the cognitive sciences have offered multidisciplinary ways of understanding the mind and cognition...read more

Product Description: Conceptual change continues to be a central concern of many of the disciplines that participate in the learning sciences. In this special issue, conceptual change is studied from a variety of perspectives, including: * Cognitive development -- concerning the nature of children's concepts, how they relate to adult concepts, and how they develop...read more

Product Description: In Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development, Frank C. Keil provides a coherent account of how concepts and word meanings develop in children, adding to our understanding of the representational nature of concepts and word meanings at all ages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Semantic and Conceptual Development, Frank Keil presents the first psychological investigation of the developing child's ontological knowledge. Building on previous philosophical work, Keil shows that ontological categories develop in a highly predictable progression...read more