The Innate Mind

  • The Innate Mind: Volume 3: Foundations and the Future
    By Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich

    For example, recent research on social referencing8 (Moses et al., 2001; Mumme and Fernald, 2003), “protodeclarative” pointing9 (Carpenter et al., 1998; Liszkowski et al., 2004; Tomasello et al., 2007), or predicting others' ...

  • The Innate Mind
    By Peter Carruthers

    Concerned with the fundamental architecture of the mind, this text addresses questions about the existence

  • The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents
    By Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich

    That is, they endorse the following intractability thesis (IT): IT: Nonmodular cognitive mechanisms—in particular mechanisms for reasoning—are computationally intractable. As will soon become apparent, the arguments for IT vary ...

  • The Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and Cognition
    By Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich

    How do minds generate and shape cultures? How are cultures processed by minds? The volume will be of great importance to anyone interested in the interplay between culture and the innate mind.

  • The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents
    By Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich

    This is the first volume of a projected three-volume set 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.

  • The Innate Mind: Volume 3: Foundations and the Future
    By Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich

    This is the third volume of a three-volume set on The Innate Mind.

  • The Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and Cognition
    By Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich

    How do minds generate and shape cultures? How are cultures processed by minds? The volume will be of great importance to anyone interested in the interplay between culture and the innate mind.

  • The Innate Mind
    By Stephen P. Stich, Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence

    Concerned with the fundamental architecture of the mind, this text addresses questions about the existence & extent of human innate abilities, how these inate abilities affect the development of the mature mind, & which of them is shared ...

  • The Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and Cognition
    By Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich

    Vol. 3: Concerned with the fundamental architecture of the mind, this text addresses questions about the existence & extent of human innate abilities, how these inate abilities affect the development of the mature mind, & which of them is ...