The Epigenesis of Mind: Essays on Biology and Cognition
Edited by Susan Carey, Rochel Gelman
Series: Jean Piaget Symposia Series
- List Price: $99.95
- ISBN: 978-0-8058-0438-6
- Published by: Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
- Publication Date: 04/01/1991
- Pages: 360
- Trim Size: 6 x 9
- Binding(s): Hardback
About the Book
Reflecting the focus of a Jean Piaget Symposium entitled Biology and Knowledge: Structural Constraints on Development, this volume presents many of the emergent themes discussed.
Among these themes are:
- Structural constraints on cognitive development and learning come in many shapes and forms and involve appeal to more than one level of analysis.
- To postulate innate knowledge is not to deny that humans can acquire new concepts.
- It is unlikely that there is only one learning mechanism, even if one prefers to work with general as opposed to domain-specific mechanisms.
- The problems of induction with respect to concept acquisition are even harder than originally thought.
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