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This is the third of a three-volume set on The Innate Mind providing a comprehensive assessment of nativist thought and definitive reference point for future inquiry. Together these volumes point the way toward a synthesis that provides a powerful picture of our minds and their place in the natural order.
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This is the third volume of a three-volume set on The Innate Mind. The extent to which cognitive structures, processes, and contents are innate is one of the central questions concerning the nature of the mind, with important implications for debates throughout the human sciences. By bringing together the top nativist scholars in philosophy, psychology, and allied disciplines these volumes provide a comprehensive assessment of nativist thought and a definitive
reference point for future nativist inquiry. The Innate Mind: Volume 3: Foundations and the Future, concerns a variety of foundational issues as well as questions about the direction of future nativist
research. It addresses such questions as: What is innateness? Is it a confused notion? What is at stake in debates between nativists and empiricists? What is the relationship between genes and innateness? How do innate structures and learned information interact to produce adult forms of cognition, e.g. about number, and how does such learning take place? What innate abilities underlie the creative aspect of language, and of creative cognition generally? What are the innate foundations of human
motivation, and of human moral cognition? In the course of their discussions, many of the contributors pose the question (whether explicitly or implicitly): Where next for nativist
research?Together, these three volumes provide the most intensive and richly cross-disciplinary investigation of nativism ever undertaken. They point the way toward a synthesis of nativist work that promises to provide a powerful picture of our minds and their place in the natural order.
Contents
List of Contributors
1: Introduction
Part One: Innateness, Genes, and the Poverty of the Stimulus
2: Is Innateness a Confused Concept?
3: Geners, Environments, and Concepts of Biological Inheritance
4: Innateness and Genetic Information
5: Genes and Human Psychological Traits
6: Poverty of the Stimulus Arguments Concerning Language and Fold Psychology
Part Two: Innateness and Cognitive Development
7: Where the Integers Come From
8: Linguistic Determinism and the Innate Basis of Number
9: Learning "about " Versus Learning "from" Other Minds: The System of Human Pedagogy and its Implications
10: Rational Statistical Inference and Cognitive Development
11: Of Pigeons, Humans, Language and the Mind
Part Three: Language, Creativity, and Cognition
12: The Creative Aspect of Language Use and Non-Biological Nativism
13: The Creative-Action Theory of Creativity
14: Space and the Language-Cognition Interface
Part Four: Culture, Motivation, and Morality
15: Innate Constraints on Judgment an Decision Making?: Insights from Non-Human Primates
16: Adaptationism, Culture, and the Malleability of Human Nature
17: Some Innate Foundations of Social and Moral Cognition
18: Two Theories About the Cognitive Architecture Underlying Morality
19: The Moral Mind: How Five Sets of Innate Moral Institutions Guide the Development of Many Culture-Specific Virtues, and Perhaps Even Modules
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