Inductive inference allows humans to make powerful generalizations from sparse data when
learning about word meanings, unobserved properties, causal relationships, and many …

The study of explanation, while related to intuitive theories, concepts, and mental models,
offers important new perspectives on high-level thought. Explanations sort themselves into …

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date look at problem solving research and
practice over the last fifteen years. The first chapter describes differences in types of …

Essentialism is the idea that certain categories, such as" dog,"" man," or" intelligence," have
an underlying reality or true nature that gives objects their identity. Where does this idea …

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

People feel they understand complex phenomena with far greater precision, coherence, and
depth than they really do; they are subject to an illusion—an illusion of explanatory depth …

This groundbreaking monograph offers a mechanistic theory of the representation and use
of semantic knowledge, integrating the strengths and overcoming many of the weaknesses …

In this provocative monograph, Bertram Malle describes behavior explanations as having a
dual nature—as being both cognitive and social acts—and proposes a comprehensive …

Science education reform has long focused on assessing student inquiry, and there has
been progress in develo** tools specifically with respect to experimentation and …

This article has two goals. The first is to assess, in the face of accruing reports on the
ingenuity of great ape tool use, whether and in what sense human tool use still evidences …