Causal knowledge plays a crucial role in human thought, but the nature of causal
representation and inference remains a puzzle. Can human causal inference be captured by …

Humans often represent and reason about unrealized possible actions–the vast infinity of
things that were not (or have not yet been) chosen. This capacity is central to the most …

Human commonsense understanding of the physical and social world is organized around
intuitive theories. These theories support making causal and moral judgments. When …

A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be
described in terms of geometric structures. In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gärdenfors …

Analysis and case studies show that including different orientations toward the natural world
makes for more effective scientific practice and science education. The answers to scientific …

This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from
the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and …

Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy. In metaphysics, philosophers want
to know what causation is, and how it is related to laws of nature, probability, action, and …

Emphasizing causation as a functional relationship between variables, this book provides
comprehensive coverage on the basics of SEM. It takes readers through the process of …

This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the
meanings of verbs. It adopts the now common view that verb meanings consist at least partly …

Knowledge representation is fundamental to the study of mind. All theories of psychological
processing are rooted in assumptions about how information is stored. These assumptions …