Can scientific development and children's cognitive development be the same process?

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Publication Type Journal Article
School or College College of Humanities
Department Philosophy
Creator Downes, Stephen M.
Title Can scientific development and children's cognitive development be the same process?
Date 2001-09-11
Description Assesses the value of the developmental psychology of science proposed by Alison Gopnik and Andrew Meltzoff to the understanding of scientific development. Role of distinctions between ontogeny and phylogeny when appealing to biology for theoretical support; Conception of cognition as a set of veridical processes; Evolutionary approach to understanding scientific development.
Type Text
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Volume 66
Issue 4
First Page 565
Last Page 578
Subject Cognition; Developmental psychology; Ontogeny; Phylogeny; Science, Philosophy
Subject LCSH Developmental psychology; Cognition
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Downes, S.M. (1999). Can scientific development and children's cognitive development be the same process? Philosophy; of Science, 66(4), 565-78. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ET/home.html
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6223cdw
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