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Words, Thoughts, and Theories » (1st Edition)
Authors: Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Andrew N. Meltzoff
ISBN-13: 9780262571265, ISBN-10: 0262571269
Format: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: July 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Alison Gopnik
Book Synopsis
Words, Thoughts, and Theories articulates and defends the
"theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development—the idea that infants and young children, like scientists, learn about the world by forming and revising theories, a view of the origins of knowledge and meaning that has broad implications for cognitive science.
Table of Contents
| Series Foreword | ||
| Preface and Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | The Other Socratic Method | 1 |
| 2 | The Scientist as Child | 13 |
| 3 | Theories, Modules, and Empirical Generalizations | 49 |
| 4 | The Child's Theory of Appearances | 77 |
| 5 | The Child's Theory of Action | 125 |
| 6 | The Child's Theory of Kinds | 161 |
| 7 | Language and Thought | 189 |
| 8 | The Darwinian Conclusion | 211 |
| Notes | 225 | |
| References | 229 | |
| Index | 251 |
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