What's Within? Nativism Reconsidered

Name: What's Within? Nativism Reconsidered
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ISBN: 9780195123845

ISBN-10: 0195123840

ISBN-13: 9780195123845

Edition: 2002

Authors: Fiona Cowie

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This powerfully iconoclastic book reconsiders the influential nativist position toward the mind. Nativists assert that some concepts, beliefs, or capacities are innate or inborn: native to the mind rather than acquired. Fiona Cowie argues that this view is mistaken, demonstrating that nativism is an unstable amalgam of two quite different--and probably inconsistent--theses about the mind. Unlike empiricists, who postulate domain-neutral learning strategies, nativists insist that some learning tasks require special kinds of skills, and that these skills are hard-wired into our brains at birth. This "faculties hypothesis" finds its modern expression in the views of Noam Chomsky. Cowie,…

Book details

List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/31/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Historical Debate



What Nativism is Not



What Nativism is (i) the Hypothesis of Special Faculties



What Nativism is (ii) the Mystery Hypothesis



Concept Acquisition Problem Or Mystery?



The Case Against Empiricism



The Constitution Hypothesis



Prospects for a Psychology of Concept Acquisition



The Fate of the Faculties Hypothesis



Language-Learning from Behaviorism to Nativism



The Poverty of the Stimulus



The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition



The Role of Universal Grammar in Language-Learning



Will the Evidence for Linguistic Nativism Please Stand Up?


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index