Publications

Books, Monographs, and Special Journal Issues

  • Keil, F. C. (2022). Wonder: Childhood and the Lifelong Love of Science. MIT Press. (315 pages)
  • Lockhart, K.L. & Keil, F.C. (2018). What Heals and Why? Children’s Emerging Understandings of Medical Treatments, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. (200 pages)
  • Keil, F. C. (2014). Developmental Psychology: The Growth of Mind and Behavior.  W.W. Norton (886 pages).
  • NRC (2007). Taking Science to School. National Academies Press (authored a major portion of this book).
  • Wilson, R.A. & Keil, F.C. (Eds.)  (2001). The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, Cambridge,  MIT Press (paperback version)
  • Keil, F.C. & Wilson, R.A. (Eds.) (2000). Explanation and Cognition, Cambridge, MIT Press (396 pages)
  • Wilson, R.A. & Keil, F.C. (Eds.)  (1999). The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, Cambridge,  MIT Press
  • Keil, F.C. & Wilson, R.A. (1998). Special Issue on Cognition and Explanation, Minds and Machines, 8 (1)
  • Ram A.,  Nersessian N.J.,  & Keil F.C. (Eds.) (1997). Special Issue on Conceptual Change  Journal of the Learning Sciences 6 (1) 
  • Keil, F. C. (1989). Concepts, kinds, and cognitive development.  MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.(343 pages)
  • Keil, F. C. (1979). Semantic and conceptual development:  An ontological perspective.  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.(229 pages)
 

Articles and Chapters

Lab publications are listed on Frank Keil’s Google Scholar page, here