List of Contributors
1: Tom Simpson, Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, and Stephen
Stich: Introduction: Nativism Past and Present
PART ONE: ARCHITECTURE
2: Gary F. Marcus: What Developmental Biology Can Tell Us about
Innateness
3: Brian J. Scholl: Innateness and (Bayesian) Visual Perception:
Reconciling Nativism and Development
4: Dan Sperber: Modularity and Relevance: How Can a Massively
Modular Mind Be Flexible and Context-Sensitive?
5: Peter Carruthers: Distinctively Human Thinking: Modular
Precursors and Components
6: Anna Shusterman and Elizabeth Spelke: Language and the
Development of Spatial Reasoning
7: Richard Samuels: The Complexity of Cognition: Tractability
Arguments for Massive Modularity
8: Tom Simpson: Toward a Reasonable Nativism
PART TWO: LANGUAGE AND CONCEPTS
9: Scott Atran: Strong versus Weak Adaptationism in Cognition and
Language
10: Mark C. Baker: The Innate Endowment for Language:
Underspecified or Overspecified?
11: Stephen Crain, Andrea Gualmini, and Paul Pietroski: Brass Tacks
in Linguistic Theory: Innate Grammatical Principles
12: Susan A. Gelman: Two Insights about Naming in the Preschool
Child
13: Stephen Laurence and Eric Margolis: Number and Natural
Language
PART THREE: THEORY OF MIND
14: Daniel J. Povinelli, Christopher G. Prince, and Todd M. Preuss:
Parent-Offspring Conflict and the Development of Social
Understanding
15: Susan C. Johnson: Reasoning about Intentionality in Preverbal
Infants
16: Helen Tager-Flusberg: What Neurodevelopmental Disorders Can
Reveal about Cognitive Architecture: The Example of Theory of
Mind
PART FOUR: MOTIVATION
17: Joshua D. Duntley and David M. Buss: The Plausibility of
Adaptations for Homicide
18: John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, and a. Clark Barrett: Resolving the
Debate on Innate Ideas: Learnability Constraints and the Evolved
Interpenetration of Motivational and Conceptual Functions
19: Joshua Greene: Cognitive Neuroscience and the Structure of the
Moral Mind
20: Shaun Nichols: Innateness and Moral Psychology
References
Index
Peter Carruthers is Professor and Chair in the Department of
Philosophy at The University of Maryland.
Stephen Laurence is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy
and Co-Director at the Hang Seng Center for Cognitive Studies at
University of Sheffield.
Stephen Stich is Board of Governors Professor in the Department of
Philosophy and Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University.
"This is a terrific collection. It's not just a survey of the
terrain, though it is that; it also contains a number of papers
that push the boundaries and make major new contributions to
several hot debates in cognitive science ...I predict that the book
will become a must-have collection, not just for all participants
in these fields, but also for those not working in these areas and
desiring a comprehensive and accessible guide to the
issues."--Fiona Cowie,
California Institute of Technology
"The Innate Mind is a must-have book, precisely because it brings
together theory and research over so much of cognitive
science..."--Thomas H. Leahey, PsycCritiques
"This is a terrific collection. It's not just a survey of the
terrain, though it is that; it also contains a number of papers
that push the boundaries and make major new contributions to
several hot debates in cognitive science ...I predict that the book
will become a must-have collection, not just for all participants
in these fields, but also for those not working in these areas and
desiring a comprehensive and accessible guide to the
issues."--Fiona Cowie,
California Institute of Technology
"The Innate Mind is a must-have book, precisely because it brings
together theory and research over so much of cognitive
science..."--Thomas H. Leahey, PsycCritiques
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