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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... understanding of basic linear algebra. However, one of the benefits of an Oxford education is the training it provides in possessing a deep and thorough knowledge of the most recondite subjects based on a brief weekly perusal of the ...
... understanding of basic linear algebra. However, one of the benefits of an Oxford education is the training it provides in possessing a deep and thorough knowledge of the most recondite subjects based on a brief weekly perusal of the ...
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... knowledge you can't find in the Times Literary Supplement isn't really “knowledge.” So, I guess you think my sprogs can't see because they can't write an article on Fourier transforms. But, of course, my sprogs see just as well as you ...
... knowledge you can't find in the Times Literary Supplement isn't really “knowledge.” So, I guess you think my sprogs can't see because they can't write an article on Fourier transforms. But, of course, my sprogs see just as well as you ...
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... causal knowledge, some psychologists have suggested that children's early causal representations might be largely innate rather than learned. Following Kant's conception of a priori causal knowledge (1787/1899), some researchers have ...
... causal knowledge, some psychologists have suggested that children's early causal representations might be largely innate rather than learned. Following Kant's conception of a priori causal knowledge (1787/1899), some researchers have ...
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... knowledge in general have played a rather limited role in accounts of adult causal learning. Indeed, in the adult cognitive science literature, researchers have largely focused on the role of contingency and covariation in causal ...
... knowledge in general have played a rather limited role in accounts of adult causal learning. Indeed, in the adult cognitive science literature, researchers have largely focused on the role of contingency and covariation in causal ...
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... causal learning, one weakness of Cheng's account is that, like the R-W account, it assumes that variables in the world are already identified as causes or effects. The account does not explain how, in the absence of prior knowledge or ...
... causal learning, one weakness of Cheng's account is that, like the R-W account, it assumes that variables in the world are already identified as causes or effects. The account does not explain how, in the absence of prior knowledge or ...
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