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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... hypothesis more likely, but there is always the possibility that it will be overturned. An even more difficult ... hypotheses could be proposed and could be falsified (definitely) or confirmed (tentatively). The origins of those ...
... hypothesis more likely, but there is always the possibility that it will be overturned. An even more difficult ... hypotheses could be proposed and could be falsified (definitely) or confirmed (tentatively). The origins of those ...
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... hypothesis. Causal Bayes nets provide a kind of logic of inductive inference and discovery. They do so, at least, for one type of inference that is particularly important in scientific theory formation. Many scientific hypotheses ...
... hypothesis. Causal Bayes nets provide a kind of logic of inductive inference and discovery. They do so, at least, for one type of inference that is particularly important in scientific theory formation. Many scientific hypotheses ...
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... hypothesis: Human beings (and perhaps some animals) have (a) a default tendency to behave or reason as though they take their own voluntary actions to have the characteristics of interventions and (b) associated with this a strong ...
... hypothesis: Human beings (and perhaps some animals) have (a) a default tendency to behave or reason as though they take their own voluntary actions to have the characteristics of interventions and (b) associated with this a strong ...
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