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New concepts can be learned: Susan Carey, The Origin of Concepts, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009 [Book Review]
Biology and Philosophy 26 (1):129 - 139 (2011)
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Many have doubted whether the transition to genuinely new representational resources is susceptible to psychological explanation. In The Origin of Concepts (O.U.P. 2009), Susan Carey makes a strong empirical case for the existence of discontinuities in conceptual development. Carey also offers a plausible psychological explanation of some of these transitions, in particular of the child’s acquisition of the ability to represent natural numbers. The combination amounts to a forceful answer to puzzles about the learnability of new representations.Author's Profile
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