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How to build a baby: A new toolkit?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2011

Diane Poulin-Dubois
Diane Poulin-Dubois
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec H4B 1R6, Canada. [email protected]://psychology.concordia.ca/facultyandstaff/faculty/poulindubois.php
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Abstract

Carey proposes a theory of conceptual development that specifies innate conceptual representations that get learning started. Those representations are the output of innate domain-specific input analyzers. I contend that innate core cognition about agency is itself a gradual construction and that the role of Quinian bootstrapping needs elaboration to account for the development of intuitive theories of psychology.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , June 2011 , pp. 144 - 145
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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