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Mending wall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2019

Charles Rathkopf Open the ORCID record for Charles Rathkopf [Opens in a new window]  and
Daniel C. Dennett Open the ORCID record for Daniel C. Dennett [Opens in a new window]
Charles Rathkopf
Affiliation:
Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany. [email protected]://charlesrathkopf.net/
Daniel C. Dennett
Affiliation:
Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155. [email protected]://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/
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Abstract

Heyes suggests that selective social learning comes in two varieties. One is common, domain general, and associative. The other is rare, domain specific, and metacognitive. We argue that this binary distinction cannot quite do the work she assigns it and sketch a framework in which additional strategies for selective social learning might be accommodated.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e181
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