Abstract
AbstractThis chapter advocates a view that is a substantive middle ground between the extreme versions of nativism and empiricism — a view dubbed ‘rational constructivism’. This is a view that commits us to some innate (or acquired) constraints and a set of powerful learning and inference mechanisms that may be critical for development. The mechanisms of statistical inference are used as a means to bridge the gap between discussions of innate knowledge and discussions of learning and conceptual change. In particular, the general framework of Bayesian inference is adopted and some recent research providing empirical evidence for the psychological reality of these inference mechanisms are presented.
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