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The innate mind : Volume 1, Structure and contents / edited by Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Carruthers, Peter, 1952- editor.
Laurence, Stephen, editor.
Stich, Stephen P., editor.
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.
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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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