Despite having highly impoverished understandings of the world at the mechanistic level,
children and adults alike have strong interests in mechanistic explanations. These interests …

There is a long-standing debate in the philosophy of action and the philosophy of science
over folk psychological explanations of human action: do the (perhaps implicit) …

Folk theories—untutored people's (often implicit) theories about various features of the world—
have been fashionable objects of inquiry in psychology for almost two decades now (eg …

This chapter notes that the use of intuitions to jump-start more sophisticated reasoning has
been proposed for mathematics. The question addressed is whether core intuitions can also …

People who hold scientific explanations for natural phenomena also hold folk explanations,
and the two types of explanations compete under some circumstances. Here, we explore the …

The two patron saints of the study of cognitive development (which involves how thinking
and knowledge change with age) are the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget and the Russian …

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Books proclaimed to be stimulating and provocative by their reviewers sometimes sink into
oblivion after the last review appears. Procrastinating book reviewers avoid certain risks …

In this paper, I seek to refute arguments for the idea that folk psychological explanation, ie,
the explanation of actions, beliefs and desires in terms of one another, should be …

Human beings are intellectually adventurous. We divide the world into kinds of things, such
as living and nonliving, but we are also driven to go beyond categorization. We seek to …