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  1. A Cultural Species and its Cognitive Phenotypes: Implications for Philosophy.Joseph Henrich, Damián E. Blasi, Cameron M. Curtin, Helen Elizabeth Davis, Ze Hong, Daniel Kelly & Ivan Kroupin - 2022 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 14 (2):349-386.
    After introducing the new field of cultural evolution, we review a growing body of empirical evidence suggesting that culture shapes what people attend to, perceive and remember as well as how they think, feel and reason. Focusing on perception, spatial navigation, mentalizing, thinking styles, reasoning (epistemic norms) and language, we discuss not only important variation in these domains, but emphasize that most researchers (including philosophers) and research participants are psychologically peculiar within a global and historical context. This rising tide of (...)
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  2. Innate cognitive capacities: the poverty of the stimulus argument vs. the curry argument.Ilya Bulov - 2020 - The Humanities and Social Studies in the Far East 17 (3):99-103.
    The article is dedicated to the popular argument among nativists, who use it against the empiricist approach. We analyze the strongest objection against the poverty of the stimulus argument which is the curry argument. As a result of the critical consideration of the poverty of the stimulus discussion, we conclude that the curry argument is quite sound.
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  3. Review of Shaun Nichols’s Rational Rules: Towards a Theory of Moral Learning[REVIEW]Joshua May - 2023 - Ethics 133 (3):434-440.
  4. Organic Memory and the Perils of Perigenesis: The Helmholtz-Hering Debate.Lydia Patton - 2022 - In Charles T. Wolfe, Paolo Pecere & Antonio Clericuzio (eds.), Mechanism, Life and Mind in Modern Natural Philosophy. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 345-362.
    This paper will focus on a famous nineteenth century debate over the physiology of perception between Ewald Hering and Hermann von Helmholtz. This debate is often explained as a contest between empiricism (Helmholtz) and nativism (Hering) about perception. I will argue that this is only part of the picture. Hering was a pioneer of Lamarckian explanations, arguing for an early version of the biogenetic law. Hering explains physical processes, including perception, in terms of ‘organic memory’ that is supported by ‘vital (...)
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  5. Culture and Cognitive Science.Andreas De Block & Daniel Kelly - 2022 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    Human behavior and thought often exhibit a familiar pattern of within group similarity and between group difference. Many of these patterns are attributed to cultural differences. For much of the history of its investigation into behavior and thought, however, cognitive science has been disproportionately focused on uncovering and explaining the more universal features of human minds—or the universal features of minds in general. -/- This entry charts out the ways in which this has changed over recent decades. It sketches the (...)
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  6. How Mindreading Might Mislead Cognitive Science.P. Carruthers - 2020 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 27 (7-8):195-219.
    This article explores three ways in which a cognitively entrenched mindreading (or 'theory of mind') system may bias our thinking as cognitive scientists. One issues in a form of tacit dualism, impacting scientific debates about phenomenal consciousness. Another leads us to think that our own minds are easier to know than they really are, influencing debates about self-knowledge, and about mindreading itself. And the third results in a bias in favour of empiricist over nativist accounts of cognitive development. The discussion (...)
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  7. Contemporary Concept Nativism: Some Methodological Remarks.Ilya Y. Bulov - 2019 - Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 62 (7):96-109.
    The innate knowledge problem is a classical problem in philosophy, which has been known since the classical antiquity. Plato in his dialogues Meno and Phaedo formulated the doctrine of innate ideas and proposed an early version of the poverty of the stimulus argument, which is the most frequently used argument in innate knowledge debates. In the history of philosophy there was also an opposite view. This approach is often associated with J. Locke’s philosophy. Locke thought that all our knowledge about (...)
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  8. Cognitive instincts versus cognitive gadgets: A fallacy.Aida Roige & Peter Carruthers - 2019 - Mind and Language 34 (4):540-550.
    The main thesis of Heyes' book is that all of the domain-specific learning mechanisms that make the human mind so different from the minds of other animals are culturally created and culturally acquired gadgets. The only innate differences are some motivational tweaks, enhanced capacities for associative learning, and enhanced executive function abilities. But Heyes' argument depends on contrasting cognitive gadgets with cognitive instincts, which are said to be innately specified. This ignores what has for some years been the mainstream nativist/anti-empiricist (...)
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  9. Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky. Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini. [REVIEW]Ausonio Marras - 1983 - Philosophy of Science 50 (1):173-175.
  10. Poverty of stimulus arguments concerning language and folk psychology.Gabriel Segal - unknown
    This paper is principally devoted to comparing and contrasting poverty of stimulus arguments for innate cognitive apparatus in relation to language and in relation to folk psychology. These days one is no longer allowed to use the term ‘innate’ without saying what one means by it. So I will begin by saying what I mean by ‘innate’. Sections 2 and 3 will discuss language and theory of mind, respectively. Along the way, I will also briefly discuss other arguments for innate (...)
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  11. The Innate Mind: Health Disparities Affecting Gay and Bisexual Men in the United States.Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence & Stephen Stich - 2008 - Oxford University Press USA.
    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: (...)
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  12. The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents.Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence & Stephen P. Stich (eds.) - 2005 - New York, US: Oxford University Press on Demand.
    This is the first of three volumes on the subject of innateness. The extent to which the mind is innate is one of the central questions in the human sciences, with important implications for many surrounding debates. This book along with the following two volumes provide assess of nativist thought and a definitive reference point for future nativist inquiry. This book is concerned with the fundamental architecture of the mind, addressing such question as: what capacities, processes, representations, biases, and connections (...)
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  13. Scientists’ Concepts of Innateness: Evolution or Attraction?E. Machery, P. Griffiths, S. Linquist & K. Stotz - 2019 - In Richard Samuels & Daniel Wilkenfeld (eds.), Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Science. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 172-201.
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  14. 18. Reflexion and Innateness.Murray Miles - 1999 - In Insight and Inference: Descartes's Founding Principle and Modern Philosophy. University of Toronto Press. pp. 291-320.
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  15. Irretrievably confused? Innateness in explanatory context.Jonathan Birch - 2009 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 40 (4):296-301.
    The hunt for a biologically respectable definition for the folk concept of innateness is still on. I defend Ariew’s Canalization account of innateness against the criticisms of Griffiths and Machery, but highlight the remaining flaws in this proposal. I develop a new analysis based on the notion of environmental induction. A trait is innate, I argue, iff it is not environmentally induced. I augment this definition with a novel analysis of environmental induction that draws on the contrastive nature of causal (...)
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  16. What Linguistic Nativism Tells us about Innateness.Delphine Blitman - 2014 - Philosophia Scientiae 18:167-175.
    La question de l’innéisme reste un sujet de débat actuel dans le domaine des sciences cognitives. Cela vient du fait non seulement que les thèses innéistes restent controversées, mais aussi de ce que, à un niveau conceptuel, la manière dont la notion d’innéité doit être définie n’est pas claire. Le programme de recherche de Chomsky a joué un rôle fondateur, en montrant la portée méthodologique que pouvait avoir une perspective innéiste pour l’étude des facultés mentales et en particulier du langage. (...)
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  17. Can Innateness Ascriptions Avoid Tautology?Valentine Reynaud - 2014 - Philosophia Scientiae 18:177-190.
    Les hypothèses sur l’innéité d’un trait formulées par les sciences cognitives – l’hypothèse d’une faculté innée de langage, par exemple – peuvent-elles échapper à la tautologie? Aucune définition générale de l’innéité ne semble pleinement satisfaisante. En tant que notion dispositionnelle, l’innéité rencontre le « problème de la tautologie » mis en évidence par Locke. Les jugements en matière d’innéité, qu’ils relèvent d’une théorie innéiste ou d’une théorie empiriste (puisque même les empiristes doivent en formuler), dépendent toujours d’une vision particulière du (...)
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  18. Innateness and Cognition.Mark Cain - 2017 - Routledge.
    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 psychology. This book is a much-needed overview of this important problem.
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  19. No more Mad-dog Concept Nativism.Justyna Japola-DesVergnes - 2013 - Analiza I Egzystencja 24:133-164.
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  20. The Innate Mind, Volume 3: Foundations and the Future.Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence & Stephen P. Stich (eds.) - 2008 - New York, US: Oup Usa.
    This book is the third of a three-volume set on the innate mind. It provides an assessment of nativist thought and definitive reference point for future inquiry. Nativists have long been interested in a variety of foundational topics relating to the study of cognitive development and the historical opposition between nativism and empiricism. Among the issues here are questions about what it is for something to be innate in the first place; how innateness is related to such things as heritability, (...)
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  21. Deictic codes, demonstratives, and reference: A step toward solving the grounding problem.Athanassios Raftopoulos & Vincent C. Müller - 2002 - In Wayne D. Gray & Christian D. Schunn (eds.), Cogsci 2002, 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 762-767.
    In this paper we address the issue of grounding for experiential concepts. Given that perceptual demonstratives are a basic form of such concepts, we examine ways of fixing the referents of such demonstratives. To avoid ‘encodingism’, that is, relating representations to representations, we postulate that the process of reference fixing must be bottom-up and nonconceptual, so that it can break the circle of conceptual content and touch the world. For that purpose, an appropriate causal relation between representations and the world (...)
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  22. Explanations, mechanisms, and developmental models: Why the nativist account of early perceptual learning is not a proper mechanistic model.Ljiljana Radenovic - 2013 - Filozofija I Društvo 24 (4):161-180.
    U poslednjih nekoliko dekada vise studija posvecenih percepciji novorodjencadi je ukazalo na to da cak i tek rodjena deca jesu osetljiva na nacin na koji se objekti pokrecu i na prirodu njihove interakcije. Da bi objasnili ranu pojavu ovakve osetljivosti na kauzalne odnose neki psiholozi zastupaju stanoviste da postoji urodjeno znanje vezano za objekte. Cilj ovog rada je da preispita ovakva nativisticka objasnjenja tako sto ce da preispita da li ova objasnjenja ispunjavaju uslove koji svaki mehanicisticki model mora da ispuni (...)
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  23. Function, Selection, and Innateness: The Emergence of Language Universals.Simon Kirby - 1999 - Oxford University Press UK.
    This book explores issues at the core of modern linguistics and cognitive science. Why are all languages similar in some ways and in others utterly different? Why do languages change and change variably? How did the human capacity for language evolve, and how far did it do so as an innate ability? Simon Kirby looks at these questions from a broad perspective, arguing that they can be studied together. The author begins by examining how far the universal properties of language (...)
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  24. The Inheritance and Innateness of Grammars.Myrna Gopnik (ed.) - 1997 - Oxford University Press USA.
    Is language somehow innate in the structure of the human brain, or is it completely learned? This debate is still at the heart of linguistics, especially as it intersects with psychology and cognitive science. In collecting papers which discuss the evidence and arguments regarding this difficult question, The Inheritance and Innateness of Grammars considers cases ranging from infants who are just beginning to learn the properties of a native language to language-impaired adults who will never learn one. These studies show (...)
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  25. Relativizing innateness: innateness as the insensitivity of the appearance of a trait with respect to specified environmental variation.Elizabeth O’Neill - 2015 - Biology and Philosophy 30 (2):211-225.
    I object to eliminativism about innateness and André Ariew’s identification of innateness with canalization, and I propose a new treatment of innateness. I first argue that the concept of innateness is serving a valuable function in a diverse set of research contexts, and in these contexts, claims about innateness are best understood as claims about the insensitivity of the appearance of a trait to certain variations in the environment. I then argue that innateness claims, like claims about canalization, should be (...)
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  26. Chapter five. Mind, intuition, innateness, and ideas.J. E. McGuire & Peter Machamer - 2009 - In J. E. McGuire & Peter Machamer (eds.), Descartes's Changing Mind. Princeton University Press. pp. 164-197.
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  27. Chapter VII. Innateness, abstraction, and essences.Thomas M. Lennon - 1993 - In The Battle of the Gods and Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715. Princeton University Press. pp. 334-366.
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  28. Can Innateness Ascriptions Avoid Tautology?Valentine Reynaud - 2014 - Philosophia Scientiae 18:177-190.
    Les hypothèses sur l’innéité d’un trait formulées par les sciences cognitives – l’hypothèse d’une faculté innée de langage, par exemple – peuvent-elles échapper à la tautologie? Aucune définition générale de l’innéité ne semble pleinement satisfaisante. En tant que notion dispositionnelle, l’innéité rencontre le « problème de la tautologie » mis en évidence par Locke. Les jugements en matière d’innéité, qu’ils relèvent d’une théorie innéiste ou d’une théorie empiriste , dépendent toujours d’une vision particulière du développement cognitif. Ce fait ne condamne (...)
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  29. Nativism.Margaret Louise Atherton - 1970 - Dissertation, Brandeis University
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  30. Ibqal's Innate Biologism.M. Habibul Haq Ansari - 1996 - International Studies in Philosophy 28 (2):1-17.
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  31. The ontogeny and evolution of human collaboration.Brian McLoone & Rory Smead - 2014 - Biology and Philosophy 29 (4):559-576.
    How is the human tendency and ability to collaborate acquired and how did it evolve? This paper explores the ontogeny and evolution of human collaboration using a combination of theoretical and empirical resources. We present a game theoretic model of the evolution of learning in the Stag Hunt game, which predicts the evolution of a built-in cooperative bias. We then survey recent empirical results on the ontogeny of collaboration in humans, which suggest the ability to collaborate is developmentally stable across (...)
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  32. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind, by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Stuart G. Shanker and Talbot J. Taylor.Robert W. Mitchell - 1999 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 3 (6):243-243.
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  33. Cowie, F.-What's Within?P. Carruthers - 1999 - Philosophical Books 40:258-259.
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  34. Review of Gary Cziko's Without miracles: universal selection theory and the second Darwinian revolution. [REVIEW]M. Bradie - 1997 - Philosophical Psychology 10:399-401.
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  35. The innate mind. Structure and contents.Pierre Swiggers - 2006 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 68 (2):429-430.
  36. Jeffrey L. Elman et al., Rethinking Innateness: A connectionist perspective on development. [REVIEW]S. Kiss - 1998 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 5 (1):117-118.
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  37. Nativism past and present.Tom Simpson & Peter Carruthers - 2005 - In Peter Carruthers (ed.), The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents. New York: Oxford University Press New York. pp. 3.
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  38. Innate Mystical Capacities and the Nature of the Self.A. N. Perovich - 1998 - In Robert K. C. Forman (ed.), The Innate Capacity: Mysticism, Psychology, and Philosophy. Oxford University Press. pp. 213--230.
  39. Locke and the issue over innateness.Margaret Atherton - 1998 - In Vere Chappell (ed.), Locke. Oxford University Press. pp. 48--59.
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  40. Innate knowledge.R. Wells - 1969 - In Sidney Hook (ed.), Language and Philosophy. New York University Press.
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  41. About the fixed nucleus and its innateness.Jean Piaget - 1980 - In Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (ed.), Language and Learning: The Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky. Harvard University Press. pp. 57--61.
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  42. Innate knowledge.Alvin I. Goldman - 1975 - In Stephen P. Stich (ed.), Innate Ideas. University of California Press. pp. 111-120.
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  43. Introduction: the idea of innateness.Stephen P. Stich - 1975 - In Innate Ideas. University of California Press. pp. 1-22.
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  44. Evolution, development, and the individual acquisition of traits: What we've learned since Baldwin.Celia L. Moore - 2003 - In Bruce H. Weber & David J. Depew (eds.), Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered. MIT Press. pp. 115--139.
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  45. Some reflections on L.S. Vygotsky's thought and language.Jerry Fodor - 1972 - Cognition 1 (1):83-95.
  46. Ever since language and learning: afterthoughts on the Piaget-Chomsky debate.Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 1994 - Cognition 50 (1-3):315-346.
  47. A confusion about innateness.Ned Block - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):27-29.
  48. On the unmodifiability of views and the innateness of behavior.Timothy D. Johnston - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):351-352.
  49. Instinct and innateness: Information in causes.Leigh M. Van Valen - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):351-351.
  50. A premature retreat to nativism.Jeffrey L. Sokolov & Catherine E. Snow - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):635-636.
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