Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity In Cognition And Culture

Lawrence A. Hirschfeld · Susan A. Gelman

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Categorization, perception, and language Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Child and Animal Learning Development

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Preface Domain specificity: an introduction Lawrence Hirschfeld and Susan Gelman Part I. General/Theoretical Approaches: 1. The modularity of thought Dan Sperber 2. Domain specificity and cultural variation are not inconsistent: lessons from number and music Rochel Gelman and Kimberly Brenneman Part II. Are Domains Theories?: 3. The theory theory Alison Gopkin and Henry Wellman 4. Thinking by children and scientists: false analogies and neglected similarities Paul Harris 5. Core domains versus scientific theories: evidence from systematics and Itzaj-Maya folkbiology Scott Atran 6. Essences and folk theories of biology Susan Gelman, John Coley and Gail Gottfried Part III. Origins of Domain Knowledge, Biology and Evolutionary Approaches: 7. The organization of lexical knowledge in the brain: evidence from category- and modality-specific deficits Alfonso Caramazza, Argye Hillis, Elwyn Keek and Michele Miozzo 8. Origins of domain-specificity: the evolution of functional organization Leda Cosmides and John Tobby 9. Tomm and Toby: core architecture and domain specificity Alan Leslie 10. 'Moral belief' form vs. content David Premack 11. Domain specific knowledge and conceptual change Susan Carey and Elizabeth Spelke 12. Is the acquisition of social categories based on domain-specific competence or on knowledge transfer? Lawrence Hirschfield 13. The birth and nurturance of concepts by domains: the origins of concepts of living things Frank Keil Part IV. Domains Across Cultures and Languages: 14. Cognitive constraints on cultural representation: natural ontologies and religious ideas Pascal Boyer 15. Universal and culture-specific properties of children's mental models of the earth Stella Vosniadou 16. Cognitive domains and the structure of the lexicon Anna Wierzbicka Part V. Implications for Education: 17. 'Teachers' models of children's minds and learning Sidney Strauss and Tamar Shilony 18. 'Situated rationalism' biological and social preparation for learning Lauren Resnick.

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