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The innate mind : Volume 1, Structure and contents / edited by Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Evolution and cognition.
- Evolution and cognition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognitive science.
- Philosophy of mind.
- Nativism (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 429 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Structure and contents
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book deals with the fundamental architecture of the mind, addressing such questions as: what capacities, processes, representations, biases, & connections are innate? How do these innate elements feed into a story about the development of our mature cognitive capacities, & which are shared with other members of the animal kingdom?
- Contents:
- 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 spacial reasoning / Anna Shusterman, Elizabeth Spelke
- The complexity of cognition: tractability and arguments for massive modularity / Richard Samuels
- Toward a reasonable nativism / Tom Simpson
- Strong versus weak adaptation 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, Paul Pietroski
- Two insights about naming in the preschool child / Susan A. Gelman
- Number and natural language / Stephen Laurence, Eric Margolis
- Parent-offspring conflict and the development of social understanding / Daniel J. Povinelli, Christopher G. Prince, 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, David M. Buss
- Resolving the debate on innate ideas: learnability constraints and the evolved interpenetration of motivational and conceptual functions / John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, H. Clark Barrett
- Cognitive neuroscience and the structure of the moral mind / Joshua Greene
- Innateness and moral psychology.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-416) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029262-8
- 0-19-517999-4
- 1-280-56054-1
- 9786610560547
- 1-4237-5652-5
- 0-19-803992-1
- 1-60256-548-1
- OCLC:
- 922953062
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