Editors

Peter Carruthers, University of Maryland, College Park
Peter Carruthers is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland College Park. He was until recently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, where he founded and directed the Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies. He is the author of Language, Thought and Consciousness (Cambridge, 1996), Phenomenal Consciousness: A Naturalistic Theory (Cambridge, 2000), and (with George Botterill) of The Philosophy of Psychology (Cambridge, 1999). He co-edited the previous three Hang Seng Centre volumes, Theories of Theories of Mind (Cambridge, 1996), Language and Thought (Cambridge, 1998) and Evolution and the Human Mind (Cambridge, 2000).

Stephen Stich, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Michael Siegal is Professor of Psychology at the University of Sheffield. He has researched and taught internationally and has published extensively in the area of developmental psychology. Siegal is the author of Knowing Children: Experiments in Conversation and Cognition, 2nd edition (1997) and co-editor with Candida C. Peterson of Children's Understanding of Biology and Health (Cambridge, 1999). He has served on the editorial boards of Child Development, Developmental Science, and Developmental Psychology, and is an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology.

Michael Siegal, University of Sheffield
Stephen Stich is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He previously taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Maryland and the University of California, San Diego and has held visiting appointments at the University of Sydney, the Australian National University, the City University of New York, the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and the University of Otago (New Zealand). He is a past President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Stich is the author of From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science (1983), The Fragmentation of Reason (1990), and Deconstructing the Mind (1996), and has published over a hundred papers in professional journals. He is also the editor or co-editor of six volumes, edits the Oxford University Press Evolution and Cognition Series, and is Director of the Rutgers University Research Group on Evolution and Cognition.

Contributors

Peter Carruthers, Stephen Stich, Michael Siegal, Steven Mithen, Scott Atran, Rosemary Varley, Alison Gopnik, Clark Glymour, Nancy Nersessian, Kevin Dunbar, Barbara Koslowski, Stephanie Thompson, Jonathan St B T Evans, Denis Hilton, Paul Thagard, Christopher Hookway, Philip Kitcher, Ronald Giere, Paul Harris, Luc Faucher, Ron Mallon, Daniel Nazer, Shaun Nichols, Aaron Ruby, Jonathan Weinberg