Name: The Essential Child By Susan A. Gelman (Federick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, Federick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan)
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The Essential Child: Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought by Susan A. Gelman (Federick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, Federick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan)

Numerous fields stake claims about essentialism but this is the first book to address the issues surrounding essentialism from the perspective of developmental psychology. Gelman synthesizes 15 years of empirical research on essentialism into a coherent framework, examining children's thinking and ways in which language influences thought. She argues that young children's use of concepts such as dog, man, or intelligence, reflects their deep commitment to the presence of these categories' properties that extends beyond the observable information about objects. The presence of this commitment in children also means that they do not come into the world as passive recipients of data, but rather have an organizational scheme that supports categories. This volume will be of interest to developmental, cognitive, and social psychologists, as well as to scholars in cognitive science and philosophy.

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The field of cognitive development can be grateful to Susan Gelman for the gift of a wonderfully integrative account of essentialist thinking. This is by far the most comprehensive account of converging findings that paint a compelling picture of previously unknown aspects of children's thinking. She writes quite well and delights us with her humor. --Human Development The field of cognitive development can be grateful to Susan Gelman for the gift of a wonderfully integrative account of essentialist thinking. This is by far the most comprehensive account of converging findings that paint a compelling picture of previously unknown aspects of children's thinking. She writes quite well and delights us with her humor. --Human Development Susan Gelman's The Essential Child is both deep and accessible. She does the field a great service just by pulling together her truly remarkable research program into one integrated story. In doing so, she shows how the data that support the claim that young children have essentialist commitments challenge deeply held views about the nature of young children's thinking and about the nature of human concepts in general. Anybody concerned with understanding conceptual development and anybody concerned with understanding human concepts should read this book. --Susan E. Carey, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University This is a path-breaking book on children's conceptual development with important implications for virtually all of cognitive science. --Douglas Medin, Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University

About Susan A. Gelman (Federick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, Federick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan)

Susan A. Gelman is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. She has authored more than one hundred publications on language and cognitive development and has received numerous honors and awards, including a J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship, a Distinguished Scientific Award from the American Psychological Association for Early Career Contribution to Psychology, and a Boyd McCandless Young Scientist Award from Division 7 of the American Psychological Association. She also serves on the editorial board of several journals. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, the National Science Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation.

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The Essential Child: Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought by Susan A. Gelman (Federick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, Federick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan)

Author

Susan A. Gelman (Federick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, Federick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan)

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Oxford Series in Cognitive Development

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Oxford University Press Inc

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2003-05-08

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382

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The Essential Child by Susan A. Gelman (Federick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, Federick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan)

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The Essential Child: Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought by Susan A. Gelman (Federick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, Federick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan)

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