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Language is not a gadget.
Peter Ford Domineysubject
Cognitive sciencePhysiologyComputer science05 social sciencesCultural learning03 medical and health sciencesBehavioral Neuroscience0302 clinical medicineNeuropsychology and Physiological PsychologyGadget0501 psychology and cognitive sciences050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology030217 neurology & neurosurgeryMechanism (sociology)description
Abstract Heyes does well to argue that some of the apparently innate human capabilities for cultural learning can be considered in terms of more general-purpose mechanisms. In the application of this to language, she overlooks some of its most interesting properties. I review three, and then illustrate how mindreading can come from general-purpose mechanism via language.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-13 | The Behavioral and brain sciences |