Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and their implications for the human mind. All the papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics concerned with the metaphysics of artifacts, our concepts of artifacts and the categories that they represent, the emergence of an understanding of artifacts ininfants' cognitive development, as well as the evolution of artifacts and the use of tools by non-human animals. This volume will be a fascinating resource for philosophers, cognitive scientists, and psychologists, and the starting point for future research in the study of artifacts and their role in humanunderstanding, development, and behaviour.

• Introduction


• PART I: METAPHYSICS


• Social Ontology and the Philosophy of Society


• Artifacts: Parts and Principles


• On the Place of Artifacts in Ontology


• Artifacts and Human Concepts


• Artworks as Artifacts


• PART II: CONCEPTS AND CATEGORIES


• Artifact Categorization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly


• Seedless Grapes: Nature and Culture


• How to Refer to Artifacts


• Water as an Artifact Kind


• The Organization and Representation of Conceptual Knowledge in the Brain: Living Kinds and Artifacts


• PART III: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT


• The Conceptual Foundations of Animals and Artifacts


• The Essence of Artifacts: Developing the Design Stance


• A World Apart: How Concepts of the Constructed World are Different in Representation and in Development


• PART IV: EVOLUTION


• Animal Artifacts


• The Evolutionary Ancestry of our Knowledge of Tools: From Percepts to Concepts


• Creations of Pre-Modern Human Minds: Stone Tool Manufacture and Use by Homo Habilis, Heidelbergensis and Neanderthalensis