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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Following Kant's conception of a priori causal knowledge (1787/1899), some researchers have proposed that children's early causal understanding might originate in domain-specific modules (Leslie & Keeble, 1987) or from innate concepts ...
Following Kant's conception of a priori causal knowledge (1787/1899), some researchers have proposed that children's early causal understanding might originate in domain-specific modules (Leslie & Keeble, 1987) or from innate concepts ...
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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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Domain-specific knowledge and conceptual change. In L. A. Hirschfeld & S. A. Gelman (Eds.), Mapping the mind: Domain specificity in cognition and culture; based on a conference entitled “Cultural Knowledge and Domain Specificity,” held ...
Domain-specific knowledge and conceptual change. In L. A. Hirschfeld & S. A. Gelman (Eds.), Mapping the mind: Domain specificity in cognition and culture; based on a conference entitled “Cultural Knowledge and Domain Specificity,” held ...
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There are two more specific causal concepts that may be seen as precifications of this more general notion: total causation and direct causation. X is a total cause of Y if and only if it has a nonnull total effect on Y—that is, ...
There are two more specific causal concepts that may be seen as precifications of this more general notion: total causation and direct causation. X is a total cause of Y if and only if it has a nonnull total effect on Y—that is, ...
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Finally, let me note that both TC and DC address a specific question: Is the relationship between X and Y causal rather than merely correlational? However, if we are interested in manipulation and control, then we typically want to know ...
Finally, let me note that both TC and DC address a specific question: Is the relationship between X and Y causal rather than merely correlational? However, if we are interested in manipulation and control, then we typically want to know ...
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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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