The well-designed young mathematician

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 172, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 2015-2034

  Sloman, Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altricial vs. precocial species and competences; Architectures; Development; Empirical vs. necessary; Evolution; Forms of representation; Geometry; Hume; Kant; Mathematics; Nature nurture tradeoffs; Philosophy of mathematics; Self monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; FLOW INTERACTIONS; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; ONTOLOGY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ALTRICIAL VS. PRECOCIAL SPECIES AND COMPETENCES; DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL VS. NECESSARY; EVOLUTION; FORMS OF REPRESENTATION; HUME; KANT; MATHEMATICS; NATURE-NURTURE TRADEOFFS; PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS; SELF-MONITORING;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 56249110093     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2008.09.004     Document Type: Review

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