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  1. The origin of concepts.Susan Carey - 2009 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Only human beings have a rich conceptual repertoire with concepts like tort, entropy, Abelian group, mannerism, icon and deconstruction. How have humans constructed these concepts? And once they have been constructed by adults, how do children acquire them? While primarily focusing on the second question, in The Origin of Concepts , Susan Carey shows that the answers to both overlap substantially. Carey begins by characterizing the innate starting point for conceptual development, namely systems of core cognition. Representations of core cognition (...)
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  2. Conceptual Differences Between Children and Adults.Susan Carey - 1988 - Mind and Language 3 (3):167-181.
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    One, two, three, four, nothing more: An investigation of the conceptual sources of the verbal counting principles.Mathieu Le Corre & Susan Carey - 2007 - Cognition 105 (2):395-438.
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    On differentiation: A case study of the development of the concepts of size, weight, and density.Carol Smith, Susan Carey & Marianne Wiser - 1985 - Cognition 21 (3):177-237.
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    The development of intent-based moral judgment.Fiery Cushman, Rachel Sheketoff, Sophie Wharton & Susan Carey - 2013 - Cognition 127 (1):6-21.
  6. Précis of the origin of concepts.Susan Carey - 2011 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (3):113-124.
    A theory of conceptual development must specify the innate representational primitives, must characterize the ways in which the initial state differs from the adult state, and must characterize the processes through which one is transformed into the other. The Origin of Concepts (henceforth TOOC) defends three theses. With respect to the initial state, the innate stock of primitives is not limited to sensory, perceptual, or sensorimotor representations; rather, there are also innate conceptual representations. With respect to developmental change, conceptual development (...)
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  7. Infants' knowledge of objects: beyond object files and object tracking.Susan Carey & Fei Xu - 2001 - Cognition 80 (1-2):179-213.
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  8. Science and Core Knowledge.Susan Carey & Elizabeth Spelke - 1996 - Philosophy of Science 63 (4):515 - 533.
    While endorsing Gopnik's proposal that studies of the emergence and modification of scientific theories and studies of cognitive development in children are mutually illuminating, we offer a different picture of the beginning points of cognitive development from Gopnik's picture of "theories all the way down." Human infants are endowed with several distinct core systems of knowledge which are theory-like in some, but not all, important ways. The existence of these core systems of knowledge has implications for the joint research program (...)
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    Functional explanation and the function of explanation.Tania Lombrozo & Susan Carey - 2006 - Cognition 99 (2):167-204.
    Teleological explanations (TEs) account for the existence or properties of an entity in terms of a function: we have hearts because they pump blood, and telephones for communication. While many teleological explanations seem appropriate, others are clearly not warranted-for example, that rain exists for plants to grow. Five experiments explore the theoretical commitments that underlie teleological explanations. With the analysis of [Wright, L. (1976). Teleological Explanations. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press] from philosophy as a point of departure, we examine (...)
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    Ontological categories guide young children's inductions of word meaning: Object terms and substance terms.Nancy N. Soja, Susan Carey & Elizabeth S. Spelke - 1991 - Cognition 38 (2):179-211.
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    How counting represents number: What children must learn and when they learn it.Barbara W. Sarnecka & Susan Carey - 2008 - Cognition 108 (3):662-674.
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    The emergence of reasoning by the disjunctive syllogism in early childhood.Shilpa Mody & Susan Carey - 2016 - Cognition 154 (C):40-48.
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  13. Where our number concepts come from.Susan Carey - 2009 - Journal of Philosophy 106 (4):220-254.
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    Cognitive Foundations of Arithmetic: Evolution and Ontogenisis.Susan Carey - 2002 - Mind and Language 16 (1):37-55.
    Dehaene (this volume) articulates a naturalistic approach to the cognitive foundations of mathematics. Further, he argues that the ‘number line’ (analog magnitude) system of representation is the evolutionary and ontogenetic foundation of numerical concepts. Here I endorse Dehaene’s naturalistic stance and also his characterization of analog magnitude number representations. Although analog magnitude representations are part of the evolutionary foundations of numerical concepts, I argue that they are unlikely to be part of the ontogenetic foundations of the capacity to represent natural (...)
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    Developmental changes within the core of artifact concepts.Adee Matan & Susan Carey - 2001 - Cognition 78 (1):1-26.
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    On the limits of infants' quantification of small object arrays.Lisa Feigenson & Susan Carey - 2005 - Cognition 97 (3):295-313.
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    Objects are individuals but stuff doesn't count: perceived rigidity and cohesiveness influence infants' representations of small groups of discrete entities.Gavin Huntley-Fenner, Susan Carey & Andrea Solimando - 2002 - Cognition 85 (3):203-221.
  18. The essence of artifacts: Developing the design stance.Deborah Kelemen & Susan Carey - 2007 - In Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence, Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and Their Representaion. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 212--230.
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    Knowledge acquisition: Enrichment or conceptual change.Susan Carey - 1999 - In Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence, Concepts: Core Readings. MIT Press. pp. 459--487.
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    The long and the short of it: On the nature and origin of functional overlap between representations of space and time.Mahesh Srinivasan & Susan Carey - 2010 - Cognition 116 (2):217-241.
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    Do analog number representations underlie the meanings of young children’s verbal numerals?Susan Carey, Anna Shusterman, Paul Haward & Rebecca Distefano - 2017 - Cognition 168 (C):243-255.
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    Infants' ability to use object kind information for object individuation.Fei Xu, Susan Carey & Jenny Welch - 1999 - Cognition 70 (2):137-166.
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    Grey parrot number acquisition: The inference of cardinal value from ordinal position on the numeral list.Irene M. Pepperberg & Susan Carey - 2012 - Cognition 125 (2):219-232.
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    The development of principled connections and kind representations.Paul Haward, Laura Wagner, Susan Carey & Sandeep Prasada - 2018 - Cognition 176 (C):255-268.
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    Do nonlinguistic creatures deploy mental symbols for logical connectives in reasoning?Susan Carey - 2023 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46:e267.
    Some nonlinguistic systems of representation display some of the six features of a language-of-thought (LoT) delineated by Quilty-Dunn et al. But they conjecture something stronger: That all six features cooccur homeostatically in nonlinguistic thought. Here I argue that there is no good evidence for nonlinguistic deductive reasoning involving the disjunctive syllogism. Animals and prelinguistic children probably do not make logical inferences.
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    Infants’ Attributions of Insides and Animacy in Causal Interactions.Jonathan F. Kominsky, Yiping Li & Susan Carey - 2022 - Cognitive Science 46 (1):e13087.
    Cognitive Science, Volume 46, Issue 1, January 2022.
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    Reasoning about ‘irrational’ actions: When intentional movements cannot be explained, the movements themselves are seen as the goal.Adena Schachner & Susan Carey - 2013 - Cognition 129 (2):309-327.
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    Infants learn a rule predicated on the relation same but fail to simultaneously learn a rule predicated on the relation different.Jean-Rémy Hochmann, Susan Carey & Jacques Mehler - 2018 - Cognition 177 (C):49-57.
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    On Learning New Primitives in the Language of Thought: Reply to Rey.Susan Carey - 2014 - Mind and Language 29 (2):133-166.
    A theory of conceptual development must provide an account of the innate representational repertoire, must characterize how these initial representations differ from the adult state, and must provide an account of the processes that transform the initial into mature representations. In Carey, 2009 (The Origin of Concepts), I defend three theses: 1) the initial state includes rich conceptual representations, 2) nonetheless, there are radical discontinuities between early and later developing conceptual systems, 3) Quinean bootstrapping is one learning mechanism that underlies (...)
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    The Formal Structure of Kind Representations.Paul Haward, Susan Carey & Sandeep Prasada - 2021 - Cognitive Science 45 (10):e13040.
    Kind representations, concepts like table, triangle, dog, and planet, underlie generic language. Here, we investigate the formal structure of kind representations—the structure that distinguishes kind representations from other types of representations. The present studies confirm that participants distinguish generic‐supporting properties of individuals (e.g., this watch is made of steel) and accidental properties (e.g., this watch is on the nightstand). Furthermore, work dating back to Aristotle establishes that only some generic‐supporting properties bear a principled connection to the kind, that is, are (...)
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    Why Theories of Concepts Should Not Ignore the Problem of Acquisition.Susan Carey - 2015 - Disputatio 7 (41):113-163.
    Why Theories of Concepts Should Not Ignore the Problem of Acquisition.
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  32. Perception, ontology, and word meaning.Nancy N. Soja, Susan Carey & Elizabeth S. Spelke - 1992 - Cognition 45 (1):101-107.
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    You cannot find what you are not looking for: Population differences in relational reasoning are sometimes differences in inductive biases alone.Ivan G. Kroupin & Susan E. Carey - 2022 - Cognition 222 (C):105007.
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    Zafimaniry: An Understanding of What Is Passed on from Parents to Children: A Cross-Cultural Investigation.Maurice Bloch, Susan Carey & Gregg Solomon - 2001 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 1 (1):43-68.
    Children and adults from a remote Zafimaniry village in eastern Madagascar were probed for their intuitive understanding of the biological inheritance of bodily features. They were told a story about a baby adopted at birth, and were asked whether, when grown, he would be more likely to resemble his birth parents or his adoptive parents in bodily traits, beliefs, preferences, temperaments, and skills. In spite of the fact that the Zafimaniry, like other Southeast Asian and Malagasy peoples, profess explicit beliefs (...)
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    Individuation of objects and events: a developmental study.Laura Wagner & Susan Carey - 2003 - Cognition 90 (2):163-191.
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    The emergence of kind concepts: a rejoinder to Needham and Baillargeon.Fei Xu & Susan Carey - 2000 - Cognition 74 (3):285-301.
  37. One, two, three, four, nothing more: How numerals are mapped onto core knowledge of number in the construction of the counting principles.Matthew Le Corre & Susan Carey - 2007 - Cognition 105 (2):395-438.
     
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    The role of inferences about referential intent in word learning: Evidence from autism.Melissa Allen Preissler & Susan Carey - 2005 - Cognition 97 (1):B13-B23.
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    Executive function depletion in children and its impact on theory of mind.Lindsey J. Powell & Susan Carey - 2017 - Cognition 164 (C):150-162.
  40. The origin and evolution of everyday concepts.Susan Carey - 1992 - In R. Giere & H. Feigl, Cognitive Models of Science. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 15--89.
  41. 1. the theory-theory of concepts.Deborah Kelemen & Susan Carey - 2007 - In Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence, Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and Their Representaion. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 212.
     
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    Why the verbal counting principles are constructed out of representations of small sets of individuals: A reply to Gallistel.Mathieu Le Corre & Susan Carey - 2008 - Cognition 107 (2):650-662.
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    Evidence for a non-linguistic distinction between singular and plural sets in rhesus monkeys.David Barner, Justin Wood, Marc Hauser & Susan Carey - 2008 - Cognition 107 (2):603-622.
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  44. Concept innateness, concept continuity, and bootstrapping.Susan Carey - 2011 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (3):152.
    The commentators raised issues relevant to all three important theses of The Origin of Concepts (henceforth TOOC). Some questioned the very existence of innate representational primitives, and others questioned my claims about their richness and whether they should be thought of as concepts. Some questioned the existence of conceptual discontinuity in the course of knowledge acquisition and others argued that discontinuity is much more common than was portrayed in TOOC. Some raised issues with my characterization of Quinian bootstrapping, and others (...)
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    Infants’ representations of others’ goals: Representing approach over avoidance.Roman Feiman, Susan Carey & Fiery Cushman - 2015 - Cognition 136 (C):204-214.
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    Ontological categories guide young children's inductions of word meaning.Nancy N. Soja, Susan Carey & Elizabeth S. Spelke - 1993 - In Alvin I. Goldman, Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Cambridge: MIT Press.
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    Speaking of objects, as such.Susan Carey - 1993 - In George Armitage Miller & Gilbert Harman, Conceptions of the human mind: essays in honor of George A. Miller. Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates. pp. 139.
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    Specifying the domain-general resources that contribute to conceptual construction: Evidence from the child’s acquisition of vitalist biology.Nathan Tardiff, Igor Bascandziev, Susan Carey & Deborah Zaitchik - 2020 - Cognition 195 (C):104090.
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    The role of language in transcending core knowledge.Susan Carey - 2024 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 47:e123.
    What Babies Know (WBK) argues that core knowledge has a unique place in cognitive architecture, between fully perceptual and fully conceptual systems of representation. Here I argue that WBK's core knowledge is on the perception side of the perception/cognition divide. I discuss some implications of this conclusion for the roles language learning might play in transcending core knowledge.
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  50. Rational constructivism, statistical inference, and core cognition.Fei Xu & Susan Carey - 2011 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (3):151.
    I make two points in this commentary on Carey (2009). First, it may be too soon to conclude that core cognition is innate. Recent advances in computational cognitive science and developmental psychology suggest possible mechanisms for developing inductive biases. Second, there is another possible answer to Fodor's challenge – if concepts are merely mental tokens, then cognitive scientists should spend their time on developing a theory of belief fixation instead.
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