Words as cultivators of others minds

Words as cultivators of others minds

The embodied-grounded view of cognition and language holds that sensorimotor experiences in the form of 're-enactments' or 'simulations' are significant to the individual's development of concepts and competent language use. However, a typical objection to the explanatory force of this view is that, in everyday life, we engage in linguistic exchanges about much more than might be directly acces...

The Rational and Irrational Minds of Others

When one surveys Professor Carbonell's many and varied research contributions, two more or less constant methodological trends seem to stand out. They are the preference for an integra-tive outlook and insistence on developing computational systems. The integrative outlook stresses the multiplicity of causes in behavior and contributing factors in reasoning. It is a rather difficult position to...

Gaining knowledge via other minds: children's flexible trust in others as sources of information.

In five experiments, we examined 3- to 6-year-olds' understanding that they could gain knowledge indirectly from someone who had seen something they had not. Consistent with previous research, children judged that an informant, who had seen inside a box, knew its contents. Similarly, when an informant marked a picture to indicate her suggestion as to the content of the box, 3- to 4-year-olds tr...

Individual Minds as Groups, Group Minds as Individuals

Mortality Amongst Opium Cultivators

J. G. Pughe, Esq., Officiating Sub-Deputy Opium Agent of Ally gunge, Sew an, To E. N. Farquharson, Esq., Opium Agent of Behctr. Dated ls< February, 18G1. Sir,?Before making oyer charge of this office, I would, in continuation of my letter to your address, No. 37 of 28th June last, beg to place on record two statements shewing the rates of mortality, causes of death, and ages of the deceased amo...