The cognitive basis of science

1. Introduction: what makes science possible? / Peter Carruthers, Stephen Stich and Michael Siegal

2. Human evolution and the cognitive basis of science / Steven Mithen

3. Modular and cultural factors in biological understanding: an experimental approach to the cognitive basis of science / Scott Atran

4. roots of scientific reasoning: infancy, modularity and the art of tracking / Peter Carruthers

5. Science without grammar: scientific reasoning in severe agrammatic aphasia / Rosemary Varley

6. Causal maps and Bayes nets: a cognitive and computational account of theory-formation / Alison Gopnik and Clark Glymour

7. cognitive basis of model-based reasoning in science / Nancy J. Nersessian

8. Understanding the role of cognition in science: the Science as Category framework / Kevin N. Dunbar

9. Theorizing is important, and collateral information constrains how well it is done / Barbara Koslowski and Stephanie Thompson

10. influence of prior belief on scientific thinking / Jonathan St. B. T. Evans

11. Thinking about causality: pragmatic, social and scientific rationality / Denis Hilton

12. passionate scientist: emotion in scientific cognition / Paul Thagard

13. Emotions and epistemic evaluations / Christopher Hookway

14. Social psychology and the theory of science / Philip Kitcher

15. Scientific cognition as distributed cognition / Ronald Giere

16. science of childhood / Michael Siegal

17. What do children learn from testimony? / Paul L. Harris

18. baby in the lab-coat: why child development is not an adequate model for understanding the development of science / Luc Faucher, Ron Mallon and Daniel Nazer / [et al.].