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  1. Evidence for core social goal understanding (and, perhaps, core morality) in preverbal infants.J. Kiley Hamlin - 2024 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 47:e130.
    Spelke's What Babies Know masterfully describes infants’ impressive repertoire of core cognitive concepts, from which the suite of human knowledge is eventually built. The current commentary argues for the existence of a core concept that Spelke claims preverbal infants lack: social goal. Core social goal concepts, operative extremely early in human development, underlie infants’ basic abilities to interpret and evaluate entities within the moral world; such abilities support claims for a core moral domain.
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  • Core morality? Or merely core agents and social beings? A response to Spelke's what babies know.J. Kiley Hamlin - 2023 - Mind and Language 38 (5):1323-1335.
    Spelke'sWhat babies knowdescribes the remarkably sophisticated mental lives of infants through the theoretical framework of core knowledge. To Spelke, young infants possess six independent core domains, two of which allow them to reason about the social world: the core agent and the core social being systems. Critically, Spelke argues that these core systems fail to communicate prior to 10 months, resulting in an inability to understand social goals. In this commentary, I review evidence that, contrary to Spelke's claims, young infants (...)
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