This wide-ranging study argues that empathy is epistemically central for our folk-psychological understanding of other agents. The author counters objections raised by some in the philosophy of social science.
Altmann describes - in terms accessible to the non-specialist reader - the ways in which the mind produces and understands language, and the state-of-the-art of our understanding of the mental processes which underlie our use of language.
Altmann describes - in terms accessible to the non-specialist reader - the ways in which the mind produces and understands language, and the state-of-the-art of our understanding of the mental processes which underlie our use of language.
Science education has undergone a revolution in recent years, shifting its emphasis from breadth and memorization to depth and understanding. Teaching Science for Understanding begins with an overview of the changes in science education. It then presents a review of each major i…
Science education has undergone a revolution in recent years, shifting its emphasis from breadth and memorization to depth and understanding. Teaching Science for Understanding begins with an overview of the changes in science education. It then presents a review of each major i…
"Teaching Science for Understanding begins with an overview of the changes in science education. It then presents a review of each major instructional strategy, information about how it is best used, and the effectiveness of the strategies for understanding and retention of info…
What, exactly, do children understand about the mind? And when does that understanding first emerge? In this groundbreaking book, Karen Bartsch and Henry Wellman answer these questions and much more by taking a probing look at what children themselves have to tell us about their…
What, exactly, do children understand about the mind? And when does that understanding first emerge? In this groundbreaking book, Karen Bartsch and Henry Wellman answer these questions and much more by taking a probing look at what children themselves have to tell us about their…
Twentieth-century literature about the distinction between explanation and und- standing)? Second, can we do justice to a particular writer's notion of that category by taking at face value what he writes about his own motivation for adopting it? In response to both types of que…
