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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... other variables in the graph (except for its own direct and indirect effects) conditional on its own direct causes. ... power to bring about an effect and that this power leads to a certain likelihood of the effect given the cause, ...
... other variables in the graph (except for its own direct and indirect effects) conditional on its own direct causes. ... power to bring about an effect and that this power leads to a certain likelihood of the effect given the cause, ...
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Suppose you keep track of all the times you drink and party and examine the effects on your insomnia. If Graph 1 is correct, then you should observe that you are more likely to have insomnia when you drink wine, whether or not you party ...
Suppose you keep track of all the times you drink and party and examine the effects on your insomnia. If Graph 1 is correct, then you should observe that you are more likely to have insomnia when you drink wine, whether or not you party ...
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(We can also sometimes make accurate predictions about the effects of interventions that do not meet all these ... then my intervention alone will determine the value of wine drinking; partying will no longer have any effect.
(We can also sometimes make accurate predictions about the effects of interventions that do not meet all these ... then my intervention alone will determine the value of wine drinking; partying will no longer have any effect.
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... that physical causes can be responsible for psychological effects and vice versa), and why causal reasoning is ... in which the causal connection between events is determined by the covariation of cause and effect, and a causal ...
... that physical causes can be responsible for psychological effects and vice versa), and why causal reasoning is ... in which the causal connection between events is determined by the covariation of cause and effect, and a causal ...
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Similarly, Bullock, Gelman, and Baillargeon concluded that the idea that “causes bring about their effects by transfer of causal impetus” is “central to the psychological definition of cause-effect relations” (1982).
Similarly, Bullock, Gelman, and Baillargeon concluded that the idea that “causes bring about their effects by transfer of causal impetus” is “central to the psychological definition of cause-effect relations” (1982).
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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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