Can young children such as 3-year-olds represent the world objectively? Some prominent developmental psychologists—such Perner and Tomasello—assume so. I argue that this view is susceptible to a prima facie powerful objection: To objectively, one must be able not only features of entities represented but also objectification itself, which cannot do yet. Drawing on Burge's work perceptual consta...

The most important question in economic history concerns the causes of sustained growth. For some time, standard narrative English-language scholarship (which dominates this aspect just as it discipline economics) has seen answer to puzzle a series related developments that are thought be, if not unique to, then at least predominant premodern England, centering around development centralized st...