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Diversity in representations; uniformity in learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2010

David Danks
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University and Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. [email protected]@andrew.cmu.eduhttp://www.hss.cmu.edu/philosophy/faculty-danks.php
David Rose
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University and Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. [email protected]@andrew.cmu.eduhttp://www.hss.cmu.edu/philosophy/faculty-danks.php

Abstract

Henrich et al.'s conclusion that psychologists ought not assume uniformity of psychological phenomena depends on their descriptive claim that there is no pattern to the great diversity in psychological phenomena. We argue that there is a pattern: uniformity of learning processes (broadly construed), and diversity of (some) mental contents (broadly construed).

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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