Rethinking how children individuate objects
Spatial indexicals in early development
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 10809006 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Frauke Hildebrandt (0000-0003-3217-6222, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam), Ramiro Glauer (0000-0002-9548-716X, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, autor correspondente), Richard Moore (0000-0003-4649-7676, University of Warwick) |
| Ano | 2023 |
| Volume | 202 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Data de publicação | 2023-08-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Synthese (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0039-7857 • E-ISSN: 1573-0964 |
| Editora | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11229-023-04300-5 |
| OpenAlex | W4386142258 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 80 |
The current understanding of cognitive development rests on the premise that infants can individuate objects early on. However, the so-called object-first account faces severe difficulties explaining extant empirical findings in object individuation tasks while alternative, more parsimonious explanations are available. In this paper, we assume that children start as feature-thinkers without being able to individuate objects and show how this ability can be learned by thinkers who do not already implicitly possess the notion of an object. Based on Tugendhat's ideas on the relation between singular terms and object reference, we argue that spatial indexicals comprise the fundamental means of object individuation and describe how feature thinkers might acquire the complex substitutional system of spatial indexicals. In closing, two accounts of object cognition that do not rely on symbolic capacities, namely Pylyshyn's FINST indexes and Burge's perceptual objectivity, are critically discussed
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Extant taxon · Feature (linguistics) · Individuation · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Object (grammar) · Objectivity (philosophy) · Perception · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of mind · Philosophy of science · Premise · Psychoanalysis · Relation (database) · Artificial Intelligence · Child and Animal Learning Development · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills · Computer Science · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology
Pointing
Mental Files
Things and Places
Origins of Objectivity
The Origin of Concepts
Addition and subtraction by human infants
Ii.—proper Names
How counting represents number
Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes
Infants’ Metaphysics
Ii.—on Denoting
A Study of Concepts
Comparative metaphysics
Logic and Knowledge. (Essays 1901-1950)
Becoming episodic
Explaining early generics
Coming from a world without objects
Acquisition of demonstratives in cross-linguistic perspective
Strategies in the acquisition of deixis
Stages of egocentrism in children's use of ‘ this ’ and ‘ that ’
Helping and Cooperation at 14 Months of Age
Studies in the Acquisition of Deictic Terms
Pragmatic markers
No facts without perspectives
Sortals, bodies, and variables. A critique of Quine’s theory of reference
Perceptual Objectivity
Reference and Definite Descriptions
Bootstrapping & the origin of concepts
Actions, Reasons, and Causes
The grammar of the essential indexical
A cross-sectional study of the acquisition of grammatical morphemes in child speech
Spatiotemporal continuity, smoothness of motion and object identity in infancy
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind
Demonstratives, joint attention, and the emergence of grammar
Children's Demonstrative Comprehension and the Role of Non-linguistic Cognitive Abilities
The Role of Ontogeny in the Evolution of Human Cooperation
Demonstratives, Frames of Reference, and Semantic Universals of Space
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