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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... learners infer abstract, structured hierarchical representations of the world. And those representations are true—they really do get us to a better picture of the world. But, the data that actually reach us from the world are incomplete ...
... learners infer abstract, structured hierarchical representations of the world. And those representations are true—they really do get us to a better picture of the world. But, the data that actually reach us from the world are incomplete ...
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... learners to predict patterns of evidence accurately from causal structure and to learn causal structure accurately from patterns of evidence. They constitute a kind of inductive causal logic, and a logic of causal discovery. It is ...
... learners to predict patterns of evidence accurately from causal structure and to learn causal structure accurately from patterns of evidence. They constitute a kind of inductive causal logic, and a logic of causal discovery. It is ...
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... learners does a better job of accounting for performance than alternative learning theories. I suggested above that an interventionist account will lead to different causal judgments about particular cases than causal process accounts ...
... learners does a better job of accounting for performance than alternative learning theories. I suggested above that an interventionist account will lead to different causal judgments about particular cases than causal process accounts ...
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