From the time of birth through the early school years, young children rapidly acquire two complex...

Reflecting the focus of a Jean Piaget Symposium entitled Biology and Knowledge: Structural Constr...

This volume includes contributions from scholars examining conceptual development in a variety of...

Essentialism is the idea that certain categories, such as 'dog,' 'man,' or 'intelligence,' have a...

What is the nature of human thought? A long dominant view holds that the mind is a general proble...

Navigating the social world requires sophisticated cognitive machinery that, although present qui...

Reflecting the focus of a Jean Piaget Symposium entitled Biology and Knowledge: Structural Constr...

Numerous fields stake claims about essentialism but this is the first book to address the issues ...

This book presents current observational and experimental research on the links between thought a...