Solutions to Fodor’s Puzzle of Concept Acquisition
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Sourabh Niyogi (MIT, Co-Moderator), Jesse Snedeker (Harvard, Co-Moderator) Participants: Jerry Fodor (Rutgers), Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University) Alison Gopnik (University of California Berkeley), Frank Keil (Yale University) Stephen Laurence (University of Sheffield), Jean Mandler (University of Califonia San Diego) Eric Margolis (Rice University), James L. McClelland (Carnegie Mellon University) Timothy T. Rogers (University of Wisconsin)
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