Number Concepts
An Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Eric Snyder author Richard Samuels author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:15th Feb '24
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This Element critically evaluates mainstream number cognition research in a manner helpful to philosophers and scientists alike.
This Element aims to review and critically assess research on number-concepts within developmental psychology and cognitive science, in a manner that is helpful to researchers within both philosophy and the relevant sciences.This Element, written for researchers and students in philosophy and the behavioral sciences, reviews and critically assesses extant work on number concepts in developmental psychology and cognitive science. It has four main aims. First, it characterizes the core commitments of mainstream number cognition research, including the commitment to representationalism, the hypothesis that there exist certain number-specific cognitive systems, and the key milestones in the development of number cognition. Second, it provides a taxonomy of influential views within mainstream number cognition research, along with the central challenges these views face. Third, it identifies and critically assesses a series of core philosophical assumptions often adopted by number cognition researchers. Finally, the Element articulates and defends a novel version of pluralism about number concepts.
ISBN: 9781009055536
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
Weight: 158g
100 pages