The Epigenesis of Mind

Essays on Biology and Cognition
Herausgeber: Carey, Susan; Gelman, Rochel

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Produktbeschreibung

Reflecting the focus of a Jean Piaget Symposium entitled Biology and Knowledge: Structural Constraints on Development, this volume presents many of the emergent themes discussed. Among these themes are: Structural constraints on cognitive development and learning come in many shapes and forms and involve appeal to more than one level of analysis. To postulate innate knowledge is not to deny that humans can acquire new concepts. It is unlikely that there is only one learning mechanism, even if one prefers to work with general as opposed to domain-specific mechanisms. The problems of induction with respect to concept acquisition are even harder than originally thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Psychology Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781138882737
• ISBN-10: 1138882739
• Artikelnr.: 42803267

Autorenporträt

Susan Carey, Rochel Gelman

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Part I: Biological Contributions to Cognition.C.R. Gallistel
A.L. Brown
S. Carey
R. Gelman
F.C. Keil
Lessons From Animal Learning for the Study of Cognitive Development. P. Marler
The Instinct to Learn. A. Diamond
Neuropsychological Insights into the Meaning of Object Concept Development. E.L. Newport
Contrasting Concepts of the Critical Period for Language. Part II: Innate Knowledge and Beyond.E.S. Spelke
Physical Knowledge in Infancy: Reflections on Piaget's Theory. A. Karmiloff-Smith
Beyond Modularity: Innate Constraints and Developmental Change. K.W. Fischer
T. Bidell
Constraining Nativist Inferences About Cognitive Capacities. F.C. Keil
The Emergence of Theoretical Beliefs as Constraints on Concepts. S. Carey
Knowledge Acquisition: Enrichment or Conceptual Change? R. Gelman
Epigenetic Foundations of Knowledge Structures: Initial and Transcendent Constructions.