The innate mind
Subtitle: structure and contents
By: edited by Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich.
Contributors: Carruthers, Peter, 1952-; Laurence, Stephen.; Stich, Stephen P.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780195179675; 9780195179996
Subjects: Cognitive science; Philosophy of mind; Nativism (Psychology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-416) and index.
Table of contents: title: What developmental biology can tell us about innateness / Gary F. Marcus; title: Innateness and (Bayesian) visual perception: reconciling nativism and development / Brian J. Scholl; title: Modularity and relevance: how can a massively modular mind be flexible and context-sensitive? / Dan Sperber; title: Distinctively human thinking: modular precursors and components / Peter Carruthers; title: Language and the development of spatial reasoning / Anna Shusterman, Elizabeth Spelke; title: The complexity of cognition: tractability and arguments for massive modularity / Richard Samuels; title: Toward a reasonable nativism / Tom Simpson; title: Strong versus weak adaptation in cognition and language / Scott Atran; title: The innate endowment for language: underspecified or overspecified? / Mark C. Baker; title: Brass tacks in linguistic theory: innate grammatical principles / Stephen Crain, Andrea Gualmini, Paul Pietroski; title: Two insights about naming in the preschool child / Susan A. Gelman; title: Number and natural language / Stephen Laurence, Eric Margolis; title: Parent-offspring conflict and the development of social understanding / Daniel J. Povinelli, Christopher G. Prince, Todd M. Preuss; title: Reasoning about intentionality in preverbal infants / Susan C. Johnson; title: What neurodevelopmental disorders can reveal about cognitive architecture: the example of theory of mind / Helen Tager-Flusberg; title: The plausibility of adaptations for homicide / Joshua D. Duntley, David M. Buss; title: Resolving the debate on innate ideas: learnability constraints and the evolved interpenetration of motivational and conceptual functions / John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, H. Clark Barrett; title: Cognitive neuroscience and the structure of the moral mind / Joshua Greene; title: Innateness and moral psychology /Shaun Nichols.