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This text sets high standards for rigor and scientific approach to the
study of bilingualism and provides insights regarding the critical
issues of theory and practice, including the interdependence of
linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socioeconomic status,
the effect of different language usage patterns in the home, and the
role of schooling by single-language immersion as opposed to systematic
training in both home and target languages. The rich landscape of
outcomes reported in the volume should provide a frame for
interpretation and understanding of effects of bilingualism for years
to come.
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."
This book is unusual in its interdisciplinary approach to that
ubiquitous activity. The essays address five basic questions about
explanation: How do explanatory capacities develop? Are there kinds of
explanation? Do explanations correspond to domains of knowledge? Why do
we seek explanations, and what do they accomplish? How central are
causes to explanation? The essays draw on work in the history and
philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind and language, the
development of concepts in children, conceptual change in adults, and
reasoning in human and artificial systems. They also introduce emerging
perspectives on explanation from computer science, linguistics, and
anthropology.
A critical part of early childhood development is the development of
"theory of mind" (ToM), which is the ability to take the perspective of
another person. The main purpose of this book is to discuss and
integrate findings from prominent research areas in developmental
psychology that are typically studied in isolation, but are clearly
related. Two examples are whether executive functions represent a
precursor of ToM or whether ToM understanding predicts the development
of executive functions, and to what extent children's level of verbal
ability and their working memory are important predictors of
performance on both executive functioning and ToM tasks.
This is an introduction to Heidegger's existential philosophy by W. H. Werkmeister in Philosophy and Phenomenological research which is currently published by International Phenomenological society. Visit my rapidshare folder for more files.... 
