... condition all aspects of the research process, establishing the very meaning and sensibility of science’s empirical and theoretical activities. When debate arises at these metatheoretical levels, it is the subject of conceptual analysis, not empirical investigation. In this article, we examine...

..., Aslin [2000] and Baillargeon [2000] have responded to such attacks. Although such debates have been informative, they do not address conceptual issues. Our present goal is to provide a thorough conceptual analysis of the paradigms of interest because this should give us a sense of what sorts of claims...

... novel in this article is that in the evaluation and criticisms of rich interpretations of imitation, Paulus employs some methods of conceptual analysis, inspired by the work of the analytic philosophers Robert Brandom [1994] and Peter Hacker [2007; Bennett & Hacker, 2003]. Despite the many...

...Markus Paulus It has been suggested that preverbal infants evaluate the efficiency of others’ actions (by applying a principle of rational action ) and that they imitate others’ actions rationally. The present contribution presents a conceptual analysis of the claim that preverbal infants imitate...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Developmental concepts Stage theories Conceptual analysis Semantics Qualitative change Psychological terminology Hum. Dev. 25: 152-160 (1982) On the Concepts of Period, Phase, Stage, and Level...