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Learning to talk to ourselves: Development, ignorance, and agency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2018

Stuart I. Hammond
Stuart I. Hammond*
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School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5. shammond@uottawa.ca http://www.stuarthammond.com
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Abstract

Although anti-reflectivism seems to preclude a role for reflection, this dichotomy could be synthesized in a Piagetian developmental framework. Development integrates a role for error and ignorance in reflection, and supports Doris's espousal of valuation, collaboration, and pluralism, and the importance of extrinsic factors to the self.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e45
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