The authors outline a cognitive and computational account of causal learning in children.
They propose that children use specialized cognitive systems that allow them to recover an …

crossing the border into the moral domain changes moral thinking in two ways:(1) the facts
at hand become “anthropocentric” facts not easily open to revision, and (2) moral reasoning …

Recent research in artificial intelligence and machine learning has largely emphasized
general-purpose learning and ever-larger training sets and more and more compute. In …

In this article, we integrate two constructionist approaches—the theory of constructed
emotion and rational constructivism—to introduce several novel hypotheses for …

This article provides a synthesis and overview of a theory of cognitive development, rational
constructivism. The basic tenets of this view are as follows:(a) Initial state: Human infants …

Essentialism is the idea that certain categories, such as" dog,"" man," or" intelligence," have
an underlying reality or true nature that gives objects their identity. Where does this idea …

Is the science of moral cognition usefully modeled on aspects of Universal Grammar? Are
human beings born with an innate" moral grammar" that causes them to analyze human …

Young children develop causal knowledge through everyday family conversations and
activities. Children's museums are an informative setting for studying the social context of …

This groundbreaking monograph offers a mechanistic theory of the representation and use
of semantic knowledge, integrating the strengths and overcoming many of the weaknesses …

Probabilistic models of expected information gain require integrating prior knowledge about
causal hypotheses with knowledge about possible actions that might generate data relevant …