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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carruthers, Peter, 1952- editor.

Laurence, Stephen, editor.

Stich, Stephen P., editor.

Oxford University Press.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive science.

Philosophy of mind.

Nativism (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (455 pages)

Other Title:

Foundations and the future

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

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

OCLC:

231803462