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Even an “epistemic triangle” has three sides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2004

John Barresi*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canadahttp://jbarresi.psychology.dal.ca
Chris Moore*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canadahttp://jbarresi.psychology.dal.ca

Abstract:

By focusing primarily on communication between adult and child and on adult-set criteria for appropriate action, Carpendale & Lewis's (C&L's) account of the development of social understanding in the epistemic triangle tends toward an enculturation view, while diminishing the role of individuals. What their proposed mechanism fails to acknowledge is that the two agents in the epistemic triangle necessarily have independent perspectives of the object and of each other.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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