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

Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press,
Descriptionxii, 429 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Other author/creatorCarruthers, Peter, 1952-
Other author/creatorLaurence, Stephen.
Other author/creatorStich, Stephen P.
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 371-416) and index.
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