Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy, and ComputationUnderstanding 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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... of Deterministic Systems 231 Clark Glymour PART III: CAUSATION, THEORIES, AND MECHANISMS 15 16 17 18 19 Introduction to Part III: Causation, Theories, and Mechanisms 243 Alison Gopnik and Laura Schulz Why Represent Causal Relations?
... of Deterministic Systems 231 Clark Glymour PART III: CAUSATION, THEORIES, AND MECHANISMS 15 16 17 18 19 Introduction to Part III: Causation, Theories, and Mechanisms 243 Alison Gopnik and Laura Schulz Why Represent Causal Relations?
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It was characterized by a confusion between psychological activity and physical mechanism (Piaget 1930). ... provide a complete, functional account of a chain of causal events and reason accurately about intervening causal mechanisms.
It was characterized by a confusion between psychological activity and physical mechanism (Piaget 1930). ... provide a complete, functional account of a chain of causal events and reason accurately about intervening causal mechanisms.
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Domain-Specific Causal Knowledge, Causal Mechanisms, and the “Generative Transmission” Account In particular, ... and a causal mechanism view of causality, in which causation is understood “primarily in terms of generative transmission” ...
Domain-Specific Causal Knowledge, Causal Mechanisms, and the “Generative Transmission” Account In particular, ... and a causal mechanism view of causality, in which causation is understood “primarily in terms of generative transmission” ...
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Consistent with this view, psychologists have shown that even adults prefer information about plausible, domain-specific mechanisms of causal transmission to statistical and covariation information in making causal judgments (Ahn, ...
Consistent with this view, psychologists have shown that even adults prefer information about plausible, domain-specific mechanisms of causal transmission to statistical and covariation information in making causal judgments (Ahn, ...
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Some accounts, like those of Dowe (2000) or Salmon (1998), stress “mechanism” and “transmission.” Much like your Shultz they argue that causation involves the spatiotemporal transmission of some sort of “mark” or “impetus” from cause to ...
Some accounts, like those of Dowe (2000) or Salmon (1998), stress “mechanism” and “transmission.” Much like your Shultz they argue that causation involves the spatiotemporal transmission of some sort of “mark” or “impetus” from cause to ...
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| Title | Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation Oxford Series in Cognitive Development |
| Editors | Alison Gopnik, Laura Schulz |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 019803928X, 9780198039280 |
| Length | 384 pages |
| Subjects | › Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
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