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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813549403321

Titolo

The innate mind . Volume 3 Foundations and the future / / edited by Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-045033-9

0-19-773062-0

0-19-986811-5

0-19-971565-3

9786611162337

1-281-16233-7

1-4356-3147-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (455 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Altri autori (Persone)

CarruthersPeter

LaurenceStephen

StichStephen

Disciplina

153

Soggetti

Cognitive science

Philosophy of mind

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Nativism past and present / Tom Simpson, Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, and Stephen Stich -- What developmental biology can tell us about innateness / Gary F. Marcus -- Innateness and (Bayesian) visual perception : reconciling nativism and development / Brian J. Scholl -- Modularity and relevance : how can a massively modular mind be flexible and context-sensitive? / Dan Sperber -- Distinctively human thinking : modular precursors and components / Peter Carruthers -- Language and the development of spatial reasoning / Anna Shusterman and Elizabeth Spelke -- The complexity of cognition : tractability arguments for massive modularity / Richard Samuels -- Toward a reasonable nativism / Tom Simpson -- Strong versus weak adaptationism in cognition and language / Scott Atran -- The innate endowment for language : underspecified or overspecified? / Mark C.



Baker -- Brass tacks in linguistic theory : innate grammatical principles / Stephen Crain, Andrea Gualmini, and Paul Pietroski -- Two insights about naming in the preschool child / Susan A. Gelman --  Number and natural language / Stephen Laurence and Eric Margolis -- Parent-offspring conflict and the development of social understanding / Daniel J. Povinelli, Christopher G. Prince, and Todd M. Preuss -- Reasoning about intentionality in preverbal infants / Susan C. Johnson -- What neurodevelopmental disorders can reveal about cognitive architecture : the example of theory of mind / Helen Tager-Flusberg -- The plausibility of adaptations for homicide / Joshua D. Duntley and David M. Buss -- Resolving the debate on innate ideas : learnability constraints and the evolved interpenetration of motivational and conceptual functions / John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, and H. Clark Barrett -- Cognitive neuroscience and the structure of the moral mind / Joshua Greene -- Innateness and moral psychology / Shaun Nichols.

Sommario/riassunto

Concerned with the fundamental architecture of the mind, this text addresses questions about the existence & extent of human innate abilities, how these inate abilities affect the development of the mature mind, & which of them is shared with other species.