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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Counterfactual theories explicate difference making in terms of counterfactuals: A
simple version might hold that C causes E ... counterfactuals are often
understood in the philosophical literature in terms of relationships among
possible worlds: ...
Counterfactual theories explicate difference making in terms of counterfactuals: A
simple version might hold that C causes E ... counterfactuals are often
understood in the philosophical literature in terms of relationships among
possible worlds: ...
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However, rather than trying to explicate the notion of a causal mechanism in
terms of notions like force, energy, or generative transmission, interventionists
will instead appeal to interventionist counterfactuals. Simplifying greatly,
information ...
However, rather than trying to explicate the notion of a causal mechanism in
terms of notions like force, energy, or generative transmission, interventionists
will instead appeal to interventionist counterfactuals. Simplifying greatly,
information ...
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Causal Judgment and Interventionist Counterfactuals I noted that interventionist
theories are just one species of the more general category of difference-making
theories. The sensitivity of causal judgment to contingency information is ...
Causal Judgment and Interventionist Counterfactuals I noted that interventionist
theories are just one species of the more general category of difference-making
theories. The sensitivity of causal judgment to contingency information is ...
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Harris's (2000) conclusion is that “counterfactual thinking comes readily to very
young children and is deployed in their ... This conclusion may seem surprising if
one is accustomed, as many philosophers are, to thinking of counterfactuals as ...
Harris's (2000) conclusion is that “counterfactual thinking comes readily to very
young children and is deployed in their ... This conclusion may seem surprising if
one is accustomed, as many philosophers are, to thinking of counterfactuals as ...
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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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