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Causal Learning : Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation.
Title:
Causal Learning : Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation.
Author:
Gopnik, Alison.
ISBN:
9780198039280
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (371 pages)
Series:
Oxford Series in Cognitive Development
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: CAUSATION AND INTERVENTION -- 1 Interventionist Theories of Causation in Psychological Perspective -- 2 Infants' Causal Learning: Intervention, Observation, Imitation -- 3 Detecting Causal Structure: The Role of Interventions in Infants' Understanding of Psychological and Physical Causal Relations -- 4 An Interventionist Approach to Causation in Psychology -- 5 Learning From Doing: Intervention and Causal Inference -- 6 Causal Reasoning Through Intervention -- 7 On the Importance of Causal Taxonomy -- PART II: CAUSATION AND PROBABILITY -- Introduction to Part II: Causation and Probability -- 8 Teaching the Normative Theory of Causal Reasoning -- 9 Interactions Between Causal and Statistical Learning -- 10 Beyond Covariation: Cues to Causal Structure -- 11 Theory Unification and Graphical Models in Human Categorization -- 12 Essentialism as a Generative Theory of Classification -- 13 Data-Mining Probabilists or Experimental Determinists? A Dialogue on the Principles Underlying Causal Learning in Children -- 14 Learning the Structure of Deterministic Systems -- PART III: CAUSATION, THEORIES, AND MECHANISMS -- Introduction to Part III: Causation, Theories, and Mechanisms -- 15 Why Represent Causal Relations? -- 16 Causal Reasoning as Informed by the Early Development of Explanations -- 17 Dynamic Interpretations of Covariation Data -- 18 Statistical Jokes and Social Effects: Intervention and Invariance in Causal Relations -- 19 Intuitive Theories as Grammars for Causal Inference -- 20 Two Proposals for Causal Grammars -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Casual Learning provides a compendium of research determining how, in principle, the problem of causal inference and learning can be solved, and a wealth of methods for determining how it is, in fact, solved by children, adults, and animals. This is the first book to bring together leading researchers carrying out this new research in all these areas of cognitive science. The chapters focus on three topics: the role of intervention and action in causal understanding, the role of causation in categories and concepts, and the relationship between causal learning and intuitive theory formation. The book provides an accessible and clear introduction to the new computational ideas, and with many coauthored chapters and much interaction between the chapters, it presents an active dialogue among the authors.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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