71102.pdf

This page intentionally left blank ...

3 THE KIND OF MIND IT TAKES About halfway through Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the heroine Elizabeth and her relatives are ...

chef; the chef controlled the preparation of food but not its serving, which was the butler's domain.^1 What is truly impressive ...

is no reasonable reason, as it were, except that they are the inevitable result of the way the machines work. Do we have a good ...

moves, it is probably because something or someone pushed it. If the leg of an animal moves, it may well be because the animal i ...

between the leash and the dog's collar is stronger than the child's grip on the leash, and the man is knocked aside because both ...

Understanding mental representation: This too is indispensable if we are to make sense of what happened to the thief and the po ...

ity around us violates the principles... which is why experimental psychologists often use cheap magic tricks to produce counter ...

tain panoply of inference systems is what we mean when we say that it belongs to a particular category. To return to the thief a ...

itions about various aspects of their environment are based on special- ized principles. Causation is one among many examples of ...

only means that we produce inferences such as "if it is heavy it will strike hard," "the tail is narrow and therefore affords a ...

only because you grasped some aspects of what was going on in these different people's minds. This was made possible by speciali ...

It requires that you hold two descriptions of the same scene in your mind: there is the actual location of the marble (in B) and ...

the brain that is imagining performing the action witnessed, although the plan is not made consciously and the motor sequence is ...

At several points, I have mentioned findings about infants and young children. The most striking and fascinating models of the m ...

versation is, to say the least, rather restricted. Given young children's sadly limited capacities, it would seem that only some ...

indicate that they are all more or less similar.... However, children who are so sure that all crocodiles have similar insides a ...

they are integrated in a taxonomy, a general classification of animals and plants. The terms that designate natural species are ...

produced by a specialized system that is, even in adults, sep- arated from conscious access.^13 Are there different people out t ...

How many objects are out there? In the same spirit of enthusi- asm for infants' capacities, why not claim that they do arith- me ...