Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and Cognition

Zusatztext "This is a fantastic volume. It beautifully answers the tired complaint that we need to get beyond the simple nature/nurture dichotomy. This collection of essays represents a striking advance in our understanding of both nativism and culture. It also provides the basis for a bright future in charting how innate and cultural components interact. Together with the other Innate Mind volumes assembled by this team, this volume represents a real landmark in the development of nativism."--Shaun Nichols, University of Arizona, and author of Sentimental Rules and co-author of Mindreading. Informationen zum Autor Peter Carruthers is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. Stephen Laurence is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Hang Seng Center for Cognitive Studies at University of Sheffield. Stephen Stich is Board of Governors Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University. Klappentext This is the second volume of a projected three-volume set on the subject of innateness. The volume is highly interdisciplinary, and addresses such question as: To what extent are mature cognitive capacities a reflection of particular cultures and to what extent are they a product of innate elements? How do innate elements interact with culture to achieve mature cognitive capacities? 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. Zusammenfassung This is the second volume of a three volume series on innateness - one of the central questions currently debated in the cognitive and behavioural sciences.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Carruthers, Peter Laurence Carruthers
• Assisted by: Peter Carruthers (Editor), Carruthers Peter (Editor), Stephen Laurence (Editor), Laurence Stephen (Editor), Stephen Stich (Editor), Stich Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.2007
• EAN: 9780195310146
• ISBN: 978-0-19-531014-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Evolution and Cognition Series; Evolution and Cognition Series; Evolution and Cognition; Innate Mind
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy of Mind