Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy, and ComputationAlison Gopnik, Laura Schulz Understanding causal structure is a central task of human cognition. Causal learning underpins the development of our concepts and categories, our intuitive theories, and our capacities for planning, imagination and inference. During the last few years, there has been an interdisciplinary revolution in our understanding of learning and reasoning: Researchers in philosophy, psychology, and computation have discovered new mechanisms for learning the causal structure of the world. This new work provides a rigorous, formal basis for theory theories of concepts and cognitive development, and moreover, the causal learning mechanisms it has uncovered go dramatically beyond the traditional mechanisms of both nativist theories, such as modularity theories, and empiricist ones, such as association or connectionism. |
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... constraints on these patterns of probability among the variables. These constraints can be captured by a single formal assumption, the causal Markov assumption. The Causal Markov Assumption For any variable X in an acyclic causal graph ...
... constraints on these patterns of probability among the variables. These constraints can be captured by a single formal assumption, the causal Markov assumption. The Causal Markov Assumption For any variable X in an acyclic causal graph ...
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... constraints on object motion, assuming that objects respect principles of support, containment, cohesion, continuity, and contact (Baillargeon, Kotovsky, & Needham, 1995; Spelke, Breinlinger, Macomber, & Jacobson, 1992; Spelke, Katz ...
... constraints on object motion, assuming that objects respect principles of support, containment, cohesion, continuity, and contact (Baillargeon, Kotovsky, & Needham, 1995; Spelke, Breinlinger, Macomber, & Jacobson, 1992; Spelke, Katz ...
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... constraints that hold between causal relationships, as they exist in the world, and other worldly relationships (having to do, e.g., with the obtaining of regularities). Nonetheless, it is common for philosophers to move back and forth ...
... constraints that hold between causal relationships, as they exist in the world, and other worldly relationships (having to do, e.g., with the obtaining of regularities). Nonetheless, it is common for philosophers to move back and forth ...
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