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Rational constructivism: A new way to bridge rationalism and empiricism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2009

Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94704. [email protected]
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Abstract

Recent work in rational probabilistic modeling suggests that a kind of propositional reasoning is ubiquitous in cognition and especially in cognitive development. However, there is no reason to believe that this type of computation is necessarily conscious or resource-intensive.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 208 - 209
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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