The Innate Mind, Volume 3: Foundations and the Future by Peter Carruthers (Engli

Description: The Innate Mind, Volume 3 by Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 definitivereference 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 nativistresearch. 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 humanmotivation, 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 nativistresearch?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. Author Biography Peter Carruthers is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. Stephen Laurence is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Stephen Stitch is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Table of Contents List of Contributors1: IntroductionPart One: Innateness, Genes, and the Poverty of the Stimulus2: Is Innateness a Confused Concept?3: Geners, Environments, and Concepts of Biological Inheritance4: Innateness and Genetic Information5: Genes and Human Psychological Traits6: Poverty of the Stimulus Arguments Concerning Language and Fold PsychologyPart Two: Innateness and Cognitive Development7: Where the Integers Come From8: Linguistic Determinism and the Innate Basis of Number9: Learning "about " Versus Learning "from" Other Minds: The System of Human Pedagogy and its Implications10: Rational Statistical Inference and Cognitive Development11: Of Pigeons, Humans, Language and the MindPart Three: Language, Creativity, and Cognition12: The Creative Aspect of Language Use and Non-Biological Nativism13: The Creative-Action Theory of Creativity14: Space and the Language-Cognition InterfacePart Four: Culture, Motivation, and Morality15: Innate Constraints on Judgment an Decision Making?: Insights from Non-Human Primates16: Adaptationism, Culture, and the Malleability of Human Nature17: Some Innate Foundations of Social and Moral Cognition18: Two Theories About the Cognitive Architecture Underlying Morality19: The Moral Mind: How Five Sets of Innate Moral Institutions Guide the Development of Many Culture-Specific Virtues, and Perhaps Even ModulesReferencesIndex Promotional The final volume of a projected three-volume set on the subject of innateness. Long Description 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 definitivereference 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 stakein 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 contributorspose 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 thatpromises to provide a powerful picture of our minds and their place in the natural order. Details ISBN0195332822 Short Title INNATE MIND VOL 3 Language English ISBN-10 0195332822 ISBN-13 9780195332827 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 153 Illustrations Yes Year 2008 Publication Date 2008-01-31 Subtitle Foundations and the Future Author Stephen Stich Edition 3rd Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780195332827 UK Release Date 2008-01-31 AU Release Date 2008-01-31 NZ Release Date 2008-01-31 US Release Date 2008-01-31 Edited by Stephen Laurence Pages 456 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Series Evolution and Cognition Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:92030605;

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