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The Theory of Multiple Intelligences: A Case of Missing Cognitive Matter.
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Allix, Nicholas M. – Australian Journal of Education, 2000
Argues that although Gardner's conception of human cognition, characterized by a set of multiple and distinct cognitive capabilities, is an advance over the narrow conception of IQ, it runs into fundamental difficulties of a methodological kind and is based on a discredited empiricist theory of knowledge which work with artificial neural networks…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Psychology, Criticism, Epistemology
Response to Nicholas Allix.
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Gardner, Howard; Connell, Michael – Australian Journal of Education, 2000
Replies to "The Theory of Multiple Intelligences: A Case of Missing Cognitive Matter," also in this issue. Disagrees about the role theory of knowledge plays in the context of justification of multiple intelligences. Specifically, asserts that the article's criticisms based on philosophy of science claims and work with artificial neural…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Psychology, Criticism, Epistemology