Table of Contents

Part 1 Neuropsychology: insensitivity to future consquence following damage to prefrontal cortex, Antoine Bechara et al; autism - beyong "theory of mind", Uta Frith and Francesca Happe; developmental dyslexia and animal studies - at the interface between cognition and neurology, Albert M. Galaburda; foraging for brain stimulation - toward a neurobiology of computation, C.R. Gallistel; beyond intuition and instinct blindness - toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby. Part 2 Thinking: why should we abandon the mental logic hypothesis?, Luca Bonatti; concepts - a potboiler, Jerry Fodor; young children's naive theory of biology, Giyoo Hatano and Kayoko Inagaki; mental models and probabilistic thinking, Philip N. Johnson-Laird; "pretending" and "believing" - issues in the theory of ToMM, Alan M. Leslie; extracting the coherent core of human probability judgement - a research programme for cognitive psychology, Daniel Osherson et al; levels of causal understanding in chimpanzees and children, David Premack and Anne James Premack; uncertainty and the difficulty of thinking through disjunctions, Eldat Shafir. Part 3 Language and perception: the perception of rhythm in spoken and written language, Anne Cutler; categorization in early infancy and the continuity of development, Pater D. Eimas; do speakers have access to a mental syllabary?, Willem J.M. Levelt and Linda Wheeldon; on the internal structure of phonetic categories - a progress report, Joanne L. Miller; perception and awareness in phonological processing - the case of the phoneme, Jose Morais and Regine Kolinsky; ever since language and learning - afterthoughts on the Piaget-Chomsky debate, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini; some primitive mechanisms of spatial attention, Zenon Pylyshyn; language and connectionism - the developing interface, Mark S. Seidenberg; initial knowldge - six suggestions, Elizabeth Spelke; what "is" folk psychology?, Stephen Stich and Ian Ravenscroft.

About the Author

Nancy Fraser is Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, coeditor of the journal Constellations and coauthor of, among other books, Redistribution or Recognition: A Political-Philosophical Exchange.