Frank C. Keil, Robert A. Wilson “Explanation and Cognition”
The MIT Press | 2000-06-23 | ISBN: 0262112493 | PDF | 396 pages | 1,3 Mb
Explanations seem to be a large and natural part of our cognitive lives. As Frank Keil and Robert Wilson write, “When a cognitive activity is so ubiquitous that it is expressed both in a preschooler’s idle questions and in work that is the culmination of decades of scholarly effort, one has to ask whether we really have one and the same phenomenon or merely different cognitively based phenomena that are loosely, or even metaphorically, related.”