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

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (455 pages)
• Disciplina: 153
• Soggetto topico: Cognitive science; Philosophy of mind
• Altri autori: CarruthersPeter LaurenceStephen StichStephen
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The innate mind
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813549403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.