A conversation with a luminary #2: Fei Xu

We're continuing our "A conversation with a luminary" series with Professor Fei Xu! This was such a great episode to record — we chat with Fei about her journey in cognitive science, her experiences as a graduate student at MIT where she was surrounded by the likes of Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor, Thomas Kuhn, Susan Carey, among others, and her work on number cognition and probabilistic reasoning in preverbal infants. In the second segment, we chat about "rational constructivism", which is an attempt to take the best parts of nativism and constructivism to explain change and to unify her empirical work under one theoretical umbrella.

Sit back and enjoy this fun episode!