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Putting Descartes before the horse (again!)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2008

Brendan McGonigle  and
Margaret Chalmers
Brendan McGonigle
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, Scotland, United Kingdom. M.McGonigle@ed.ac.ukwww.psy.ed.ac.uk
Margaret Chalmers
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, Scotland, United Kingdom. M.McGonigle@ed.ac.ukwww.psy.ed.ac.uk
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Abstract

The “rational bubble” stance espoused in the target article confounds cultural symbolic achievements with individual cognitive competences. With no explicit role for learning, the core rationale for claiming a major functional discontinuity between humans and other species rests on a hybrid formal model LISA (Learning and Inference with Schemas and Analogies) now overtaken by new models of cognitive growth and new empirical studies within an embodied systems stance.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 142 - 143
Copyright
Copyright ©Cambridge University Press 2008

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