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What can externalism do for psychologists?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 gopnik@cmsa.berkeley.edu
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Abstract

I suggest several ways that externalism could influence psychological theorizing. Externalism could just capture our everyday intuitions about concepts and meanings. More profoundly, it could enter into psychology through evolutionary theory, guide our hypotheses about conceptual abilities, and, most significantly, it could influence our accounts of learning and conceptual change.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 73 - 74
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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