The Innate Mind: Volume 3: Foundations and the Future

The Innate Mind: Volume 3: Foundations and the Future

The Innate Mind: Volume 3: Foundations and the Future

The Innate Mind: Volume 3: Foundations and the Future

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This is the third volume of a three-volume set on The Innate Mind. The extent to which cognitive structures, processes, and contents are innate is one of the central questions concerning the nature of the mind, with important implications for debates throughout the human sciences. By bringing together the top nativist scholars in philosophy, psychology, and allied disciplines these volumes provide a comprehensive assessment of nativist thought and a definitive reference point for future nativist inquiry. The Innate Mind: Volume 3: Foundations and the Future, concerns a variety of foundational issues as well as questions about the direction of future nativist research. It addresses such questions as: What is innateness? Is it a confused notion? What is at stake in debates between nativists and empiricists? What is the relationship between genes and innateness? How do innate structures and learned information interact to produce adult forms of cognition, e.g. about number, and how does such learning take place? What innate abilities underlie the creative aspect of language, and of creative cognition generally? What are the innate foundations of human motivation, and of human moral cognition? In the course of their discussions, many of the contributors pose the question (whether explicitly or implicitly): Where next for nativist research? Together, these three volumes provide the most intensive and richly cross-disciplinary investigation of nativism ever undertaken. They point the way toward a synthesis of nativist work that promises to provide a powerful picture of our minds and their place in the natural order.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780190450335
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 01/10/2008
Series: Evolution and Cognition
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 4 MB

Table of Contents


Contributors     ix
Introduction   Peter Carruthers   Stephen Laurence   Stephen Stich     3
Innateness, Genes, and the Poverty of the Stimulus
Is Innateness a Confused Concept?   Richard Samuels     17
Genes, Environments, and Concepts of Biological Inheritance   Matteo Mameli     37
Innateness and Genetic Information   Peter Godfrey-Smith     55
Genes and Human Psychological Traits   Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.     69
Poverty of Stimulus Arguments Concerning Language and Folk Psychology   Gabriel Segal     90
Innateness and Cognitive Development
Where Integers Come From   Alan M. Leslie   C. R. Gallistel   Rochel Gelman     109
Linguistic Determinism and the Innate Basis of Number   Stephen Laurence   Eric Margolis     139
Learning "About" Versus Learning "From" Other Minds: Natural Pedagogy and Its Implications   Gyory Gergely     170
Rational Statistical Inference and Cognitive Development   Fei Xu     199
Of Pigeons, Humans, Language, and the Mind   Luca L. Bonatti     216
Language, Creativity, and Cognition
The Creative Aspect of Language Use and Nonbiological Nativism   Mark C. Baker     233
The Creative Action Theory of Creativity   Peter Carruthers     254
Space and the Language-Cognition Interface   Anna Papafragou     272
Culture, Motivation, and Morality
Innate Constraints on Judgment and Decision-Making? Insights from Children and Nonhuman Primates   Laurie R. Santos   Venkat Lakshminarayanan     293
Adaptationism, Culture, and the Malleability of Human Nature   Chandra Sekhar Sripada     311
Some Innate Foundations of Social and Cognition   Karen Wynn     330
Two Theories About the Cognitive Architecture Underlying Morality   Daniel Kelly   Stephen Stich     348
The Moral Mind: How Five Sets of Innate Intuitions Guide the Development of Many Culture-Specific Virtues, and Perhaps Even Modules   Jonathan Haidt   Craig Joseph     367
References     393
Index     437
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