Innateness in mind
Auteur :
Carruthers, Peter
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009506045
Date de publication :
30 juin 2026
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This Element focuses on contemporary forms of nativism (belief in innateness), which mostly concern the existence of domain-specific learning mechanisms with innate structure and content. After sketching some innate capacities that are widely believed to be shared with other animals, it discusses a number of (alleged) distinctively human ones.