Brian Leahy

639 total citations
20 papers, 295 citations indexed

About

Brian Leahy is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Philosophy and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Leahy has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 295 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 9 papers in Philosophy and 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Brian Leahy's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (7 papers) and Philosophy and Theoretical Science (7 papers). Brian Leahy is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (7 papers) and Philosophy and Theoretical Science (7 papers). Brian Leahy collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Brian Leahy's co-authors include Susan Carey, Josef Perner, Michael Huemer, Eva Rafetseder, Jonathan Redshaw, Thomas Suddendorf and Christine O’Brien and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Trends in Cognitive Sciences and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Brian Leahy

20 papers receiving 273 citations

Peers

Brian Leahy

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Soyoung Suh United States

R. Brooke Lea United States

Hélène Giraudo France

Nick Braisby United Kingdom

Walter Schroyens Belgium

Jean-François Lecas France

Anne Helder Netherlands

Sandra Virtue United States

Sabine Guéraud France

Josefine Karlsson Netherlands

Soyoung Suh United States

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118 ×1.2

125 ×1.7

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20 of 20 papers shown

Leahy, Brian. (2023). Many preschoolers do not distinguish the possible from the impossible in a marble-catching task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 238. 105794–105794. 4 indexed citations

Leahy, Brian. (2023). Don't you see the possibilities? Young preschoolers may lack possibility concepts. Developmental Science. 26(6). e13400–e13400. 12 indexed citations

Leahy, Brian, et al.. (2022). Might and might not: Children's conceptual development and the acquisition of modal verbs. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 31. 426–426. 8 indexed citations

Leahy, Brian, et al.. (2022). Minimal representations of possibility at age 3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(52). e2207499119–e2207499119. 13 indexed citations

Rafetseder, Eva, Christine O’Brien, Brian Leahy, & Josef Perner. (2020). Extended difficulties with counterfactuals persist in reasoning with false beliefs: Evidence for teleology-in-perspective. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 204. 105058–105058. 11 indexed citations

Carey, Susan, Brian Leahy, Jonathan Redshaw, & Thomas Suddendorf. (2019). Could It Be So? The Cognitive Science of Possibility. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 24(1). 3–4. 17 indexed citations

Leahy, Brian & Susan Carey. (2019). The Acquisition of Modal Concepts. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 24(1). 65–78. 77 indexed citations

Huemer, Michael, Josef Perner, & Brian Leahy. (2017). Mental files theory of mind: When do children consider agents acquainted with different object identities?. Cognition. 171. 122–129. 12 indexed citations

Leahy, Brian. (2017). Counterfactual antecedent falsity and the epistemic sensitivity of counterfactuals. Philosophical Studies. 175(1). 45–69. 13 indexed citations

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Perner, Josef, Michael Huemer, & Brian Leahy. (2015). Mental files and belief: A cognitive theory of how children represent belief and its intensionality. Cognition. 145. 77–88. 37 indexed citations

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Perner, Josef & Brian Leahy. (2015). Mental Files in Development: Dual Naming, False Belief, Identity and Intensionality. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 7(2). 491–508. 22 indexed citations

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Leahy, Brian. (2015). Presuppositions and Antipresuppositions in Conditionals. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 257–257. 1 indexed citations

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Leahy, Brian. (2015). Simplicity and elegance in Millikan’s account of productivity: reply to Martinez. Philosophical Psychology. 29(4). 503–516. 3 indexed citations

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Leahy, Brian. (2014). Counterfactual Antipresuppositions and Local Maximize Presupposition. KOPS (University of Konstanz). 69–84. 2 indexed citations

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Leahy, Brian, et al.. (2014). Two arguments for the etiological theory over the modal theory of biological function. Synthese. 194(4). 1169–1187. 2 indexed citations

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Leahy, Brian. (2014). Teleosemantics: Intentionality, Productivity, and the Theory of Meaning. Language and Linguistics Compass. 8(5). 197–210. 3 indexed citations

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Leahy, Brian. (2014). On Presuppositional Implicatures. Topoi. 35(1). 83–91. 5 indexed citations

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Leahy, Brian, Eva Rafetseder, & Josef Perner. (2013). Basic Conditional Reasoning: How Children Mimic Counterfactual Reasoning. Studia Logica. 102(4). 793–810. 23 indexed citations

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Leahy, Brian. (2012). Can Teleosemantics Deflect the EAAN?. Philosophia. 41(1). 221–238. 2 indexed citations

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Leahy, Brian. (2011). Presuppositions and Antipresuppositions in Conditionals. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 21. 257–257. 28 indexed citations

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