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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Plotkin, H.C. (Henry C.). Necessary knowledge. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)608493142 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
H C Plotkin |
ISBN: | 0198568282 9780198568285 |
OCLC Number: | 76863985 |
Description: | viii, 348 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Pervasive problems -- The advantages of hindsight -- Moving on -- Towards a solution : constraints on learning -- Developmental empiricism : old wine in new bottles -- Complex causal architectures -- Cognitive science, philosophy and the problem of unbounded culture. |
Responsibility: | Henry Plotkin. |
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Abstract:
'Necessary knowledge' tackles one of the big questions - what knowledge do we possess at birth, and what do we learn along the way? It neither sides with those who believe in 'blank slate' theories, nor with those who believe all learning is innate. Instead, it proposes an original new solution to this enduring puzzle.
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