The innate mind. Volume 2, Culture and cognition / edited by Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich.

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):

Cognition and culture.

Cognitive science.

Philosophy of mind.

Nativism (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 356 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Culture and cognition

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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:

""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""1 Introduction: Culture and the Innate Mind""; ""PART I: LEARNING, CULTURE, AND EVOLUTION""; ""2 Culture, Adaptation, and Innateness""; ""3 About 17 (+/�2) Potential Principles about Links between the Innate Mind and Culture: Preadaptation, Predispositions, Preferences, Pathways, and Domains""; ""4 Steps toward an Evolutionary Psychology of a Culture-Dependent Species""; ""5 Human Groups as Adaptive Units: Toward a Permanent Consensus""

""6 The Baldwin Effect and Genetic Assimilation: Contrasting Explanatory Foci and Gene Concepts in Two Approaches to an Evolutionary Process""""7 The Baldwin Effect and Genetic Assimilation: Reply to Griffiths""; ""8 Mental Number Lines""; ""PART II: MODULARITY AND COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE""; ""9 Modularity in Language and Theory of Mind: What Is the Evidence?""; ""10 Culture and Modularity""; ""11 Shaping Social Environments with Simple Recognition Heuristics""; ""12 Simple Heuristics Meet Massive Modularity""; ""13 Modularity and Design Reincarnation""

""14 Cognitive Load and Human Decision, or, Three Ways of Rolling the Rock Uphill""""PART III: MORALITY, NORMS, AND RELIGION""; ""15 How Good Is the Linguistic Analogy?""; ""16 Is Human Morality Innate?""; ""17 A Framework for the Psychology of Norms""; ""18 Religion�s Innate Origins and Evolutionary Background""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-988588-5

0-19-531014-4

1-281-16357-0

9786611163570

0-19-804236-1

OCLC:

610849499