ABSTRACT

This book presents a fascinating array of thorough and exhaustive chapters on the nature of human intelligence. The authors of these chapters, some of the world’s leading authorities in the field, were asked to evaluate the evidence available and tell us whether there is a common set of processes and abilities permeating all kinds of human understanding and problem solving or whether no such set exists. In more technical terms, the contributors to this volume were invited to elaborate on whether intelligence includes a general factor, the famous g, or independent domain-specific faculties of intelligence.