Mind perception entails ascribing mental capacities to other entities, whereas moral
judgment entails labeling entities as good or bad or actions as right or wrong. We suggest …

Research on the development of causal reasoning has broadly focused on accomplishing
two goals: understanding the origins of causal reasoning, and examining how causal …

It is argued that causal understanding originates in experiences of acting on objects. Such
experiences have consistent features that can be used as clues to causal identification and …

Change-of-state verbs are heterogeneous with respect to their occurrence in the causative-
anticausative alternation. While some of them are never used as anticausatives (eg …

When choosing how to describe what happened, we have a number of causal verbs at our
disposal. In this paper, we develop a model-theoretic formal semantics for nine causal verbs …

Central to this study is a question of how the conceptual distinction between direct and
indirect causation is manifested in the grammar of natural languages. Since the early years …

Did Tom's use of nuts in the dish cause Billy's allergic reaction? According to counterfactual
theories of causation, an agent is judged a cause to the extent that their action made a …

Verbs are often uttered before the events they describe. By 2 years of age, toddlers can
learn from such an encounter. Hearing a novel verb in transitive sentences (eg The boy …

This study, primarily theoretical in nature, explores a philosophically and pedagogically
reasonable way of addressing nature of science (NOS) in school science. NOS …

Four experiments tested the idea that people distinguish between biconditional, conditional,
and enabling intention conditionals by thinking about counterexamples. The experiments …