During the past decade, social mechanisms and mechanism-based explanations have
received considerable attention in the social sciences as well as in the philosophy of …

In this Review, I present evidence supporting a multifactorial causation of childhood acute
lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), a major subtype of paediatric cancer. ALL evolves in two …

What distinguishes good explanations in neuroscience from bad? Carl F. Craver constructs
and defends standards for evaluating neuroscientific explanations that are grounded in a …

A main goal of science education is to help students learn to reason scientifically. A main
way to facilitate learning is to engage students in inquiry activities such as conducting …

Why a thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this book about theories of disease
distribution, in past and present societal and ecological context? Because the lived realities …

This target article presents a new computational theory of explanatory coherence that
applies to the acceptance and rejection of scientific hypotheses as well as to reasoning in …

Cognitive science approaches the study of mind and intelligence from an interdisciplinary
perspective, working at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence …

Conceptual change research investigates the processes through which learners
substantially revise prior knowledge and acquire new concepts. Tracing its heritage to …

We argue that beyond metaphors, according to which learning is a process of knowledge
acquisition by individual learners (a “monological” approach) or participation to social …

Why has the language of the child and of child protection become so hegemonic? What is
lost and gained by such language? Who is being protected, and from what, in a risk society …