?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+roots+of+scientific+reasoning%3A+infancy%2C+modularity%2C+and+the+art+of+tracking&rft.creator=Carruthers%2C+Peter&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=This+chapter+examines+the+extent+to+which+there+are+continuities+between+the+cognitive+processes+and+epistemic+practices+engaged+in+by+human+hunter-gatherers%2C+on+the+one+hand%2C+and+those+which+are+distinctive+of+science%2C+on+the+other.+It+deploys+anthropological+evidence+against+any+form+of+'no-continuity'+view%2C+drawing+especially+on+the+cognitive+skills+involved+in+the+art+of+tracking.+It+also+argues+against+the+'child-as-scientist'+accounts+put+forward+by+some+developmental+psychologists%2C+which+imply+that+scientific+thinking+is+present+in+early+infancy+and+universal+amongst+humans+who+have+sufficient+time+and+resources+to+devote+to+it.+In+contrast%2C+a+modularist+kind+of+'continuity'+account+is+proposed%2C+according+to+which+the+innately+channelled+architecture+of+human+cognition+provides+all+the+materials+necessary+for+basic+forms+of+scientific+reasoning+in+older+children+and+adults%2C+needing+only+the+appropriate+sorts+of+external+support%2C+social+context%2C+and+background+beliefs+and+skills+in+order+for+science+to+begin+its+advance.&rft.publisher=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.contributor=Carruthers%2C+Peter&rft.contributor=Stich%2C+Stephen&rft.contributor=Siegal%2C+Michael&rft.date=2002&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2236%2F1%2FRoots-of-science.htm&rft.identifier=++Carruthers%2C+Peter++(2002)+The+roots+of+scientific+reasoning%3A+infancy%2C+modularity%2C+and+the+art+of+tracking.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2236%2F