The scope of teleological thinking in preschool children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23340343 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah Kelemen (0000-0001-8703-2344, Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 241-272 |
| Publication date | 1999-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cognition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-0277 • E-ISSN: 1873-7838 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/s0010-0277(99)00010-4 |
| PMID | 10384737 |
| OpenAlex | W1997162444 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 87 |
| References cited | 31 |
Biology · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Evolutionary biology · Function (biology) · Intentionality · Object (grammar) · Scope (computer science) · Teleology · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Evolution and Science Education · Philosophy · Psychology
A field guide for teaching evolution in the social sciences
Systematic Cognitive Bias in the History of Philosophy and its Cultural Transmission
Circulo moral
Is Weaker Inhibition Associated with Supernatural Beliefs
Brungarians Use it Differently! Children’s Understanding of Artifact Function as a Cultural Convention
Religious Belief, Scientific Expertise, and Folk Ecology
Concept representation in the child
I. Introduction
A Generalized Selected Effects Theory of Function
Moving Beyond Religious Clichés
The design stance, intentional stance, and teleological beliefs about biological and nonbiological natural entities
Contradictory or Complementary? Creationist and Evolutionist Explanations of the Origin(s) of Species
The early development of object knowledge
Why are rocks pointy? Children's preference for teleological explanations of th natural world
The sources of normativity
Artifacts and natural kinds
Preverbal infants infer intentional agents from the perception of regularity
Knowing who dunnit
The Nature of the World
Lived Faith and Cognitive Intuitions
Developing an understanding of normativity
Understanding and sharing intentions
The Essential Child
What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter
Professional physical scientists display tenacious teleological tendencies
Religion's evolutionary landscape
Ratcheting up the ratchet
Cognitive and Contextual Factors in the Emergence of Diverse Belief Systems
The cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion
Preschoolers’ Search for Explanatory Information Within Adult–Child Conversation
The Human Function Compunction
The Early Ontogeny of Social Norms
British Children’s and Adults’ Perceptions of Robots
The role of information about “convention,” “design,” and “goal” in representing artificial kinds
Rules as the Impetus of Cultural Evolution
"Are Children "Intuitive Theists
Conventionality in family conversations about everyday objects
Pragmatic and prescriptive aspects of children's categorization
Çocuklar ‘Sezgisel Tanrıcı’mıdır? Doğada Amaç ve Tasarım Hakkında Akıl Yürütme
Philosophy for Preschoolers? A Critical Review to Promote informed Implementation of P4C in Preschools
Reasons Things Happen for a Reason
Medical conspiracy theories
Mechanistic reasoning in biology among elementary school children
Taking Metaphors Seriously
Do What Darwin Did
Influence of self‐assessment and conditional metaconceptual knowledge on students' self‐regulation of intuitive and scientific conceptions of evolution
“Genes for a role,” “genes as essences”
Teleological generics
A right way to explain? Function, mechanism, and the order of explanations
Teleological language or teleological thinking
Adults' learning of complex explanations violates their intuitions about optimal explanatory order
Transformations and Transfer
Crying Hegel in Art History
Robert McCauley and Ernest Thomas Lawson, Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion
Reverse Engineering Complex Cultural Concepts
My teacher is wrong
So, what is it? Examining parent-child interactions while talking about artifacts in a museum
Teleology and the intentions of supernatural agents
Teleological talk in parent–child conversations in Quechua
Theological Incorrectness
Minds and Gods
Perceiving persons and their purposes
Morgan's Quaker gun and the species of belief
The Implications of the Cognitive Sciences for the Relation Between Religion and Science Education
Someone is pulling the strings
Core knowledge
How does language shape formation of concepts? Empirical investigation of generics and conditionals in French
MCI theory
Meant to be”
Belief as explanation
Cultural influences on the teleological stance
McCauley, the maturational natural, and the current limits of the cognitive science of religion
Reasoning about nature’s agency and design in the cultural context of China
New Tool, New Function? Toddlers' Use of Mutual Exclusivity When Mapping Information to Objects
Artifacts and mind-dependence
The design stance and its artefacts
Persistence through function preservation
Biological functions, generics, and explanation
Conceptual Information Permeates Word Learning in Infancy
Why Things Happen
Re-evaluating the Effects of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake on Eighteenth-Century Minds
Vitalism, purpose and superstition
All Models Are Wrong, and Some Are Religious
The science of religious beliefs
Cognitive Science of Religion
Biases for Evil and Moral Perfection
Concepts and Folk Theories
The masks of God.
Core domains versus scientific theories
The birth and nurturance of concepts by domains
Essentialist beliefs in children
Words, Thoughts, and Theories
Mindblindness
Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development
The teleological notion of ‘function’
The infant's theory of self-propelled objects
ToMM, ToBY, and Agency
Taking the intentional stance at 12 months of age
Intention, history, and artifact concepts
Children's Understanding of Representational Change and Its Relation to the Understanding of False Belief and the Appearance-Reality Distinction
In Defense of Proper Functions
Functions
Learning via observation during the second year of life
Early referential understanding
Why are rocks pointy? Children's preference for teleological explanations of th natural world
Mapping the Mind
Explanation, association, and the acquisition of word meaning
Traces on the Rhodian Shore
| Unique citing works | 87 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,22 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 69 |