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Beyond Newton: Why Assumptions of Universality are Critical to Cognitive Science, and How to Finally Move Past Them
2023-03-23
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<p>Cognitive science is a study of human universals. This assumption, which we will refer to as the Newtonian Principle (NP), explicitly or implicitly pervades the theory, methods and prose of most cognitive research. This is despite at least half a century of sustained critique by cross-cultural and anthropologically-oriented researchers and glaring counterexamples such as the study of literacy. We argue that a k...
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- 10.31234/osf.io/a4qx3