246 Pages
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Routledge
246 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
246 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The question of innateness, or nativism, is one of the most heated problems in philosophy, reaching as far back as Plato but generating fierce debates in contemporary philosophy and cognitive science. Which aspects of the human mind are innate and which are the products of experience? Do we have any innate concepts or knowledge or are all the contents of the mind acquired by means of learning?... Read more
Introduction
1. The Nature of Innateness
2. Defending the Concept of Innateness
3. Concepts
4. Modules, Core Cognition and Culture
5. The Theory Theory and the Theory of Mind
6. Mathematical Cognition and Quinian Bootstrapping
7. Language Acquisition and Linguistic Nativism
8. The Challenge to Linguistic Nativism
9. Morality and Innateness
10. Moral Convictions and Mechanisms
11. Conclusion.
References
Index
Biography
M. J. Cain is Reader in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University, UK.
