What's within? nativism reconsidered
Reconsidering the nativist position toward the mind, this text demonstrates that nativism is an unstable amalgam of two different theses about the mind. It examines recent empirical evidence from developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, computer science, and linguistics.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press
1999.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Philosophy of mind series.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798383806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Part I: The Historical Debate
- 1. What Nativism Is Not
- 1.1 What Is Nativism? Preliminary Spleen
- 1.2 The Oblique Approach
- 1.3 Two Problems
- 1.4 Nativism and Epistemology: Foundations for Rationalism
- 1.5 Nativism and Psychology: The Genetic Question
- 1.6 What Nativism Is Not: More Spleen
- 2. What Nativism Is: I. The Hypothesis of Special Faculties
- 2.1 Empiricism and Nativism: An Overview of the Dispute
- 2.2 The Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus
- 2.3 A Trilemma
- 2.4 The Nativist Response to the Gap: Domain-Specific Faculties
- 2.5 Architecture versus Development: The Genetic Question Revisited
- 2.6 Reprise: The Case for Special-Purpose Faculties
- 3. What Nativism Is: II. The Mystery Hypothesis
- 3.1 The Impossibility Argument of Leibniz
- 3.2 The Impossibility Argument of Descartes
- 3.3 "Everything Is Innate" Is Not an Acquisition Theory
- 3.4 Non-naturalism
- 3.5 Nativism as Non-naturalism
- 3.6 What Nativism Is
- Part II: Concept Acquisition: Problem or Mystery?
- 4. The Case Against Empiricism
- 4.1 Fodor's Argument
- 4.2 Alternative Accounts of Conceptual Structure
- 4.3 Radical Concept Nativism
- 4.4 Protoconcepts
- 4.5 'Brute-Causal' Mechanisms
- 4.6 Concept Acquisition, Fodor-Style
- 5. The Constitution Hypothesis
- 5.1 The Doorknob/DOORKNOB Problem
- 5.2 The Constitution Hypotheses
- 5.3 Ontology, Acquisition, and Innateness
- 5.4 The 'Standard Argument' and the Dialectical Role of the Constitution Hypothesis
- 5.5 Is Fodor a Nativist?
- 5.6 How Low Can You Go?
- 6. Prospects for a Psychology of Concept Acquisition
- 6.1 The Sterelny-Loar Objections
- 6.2 Ostension
- 6.3 Nonostensive Acquisition
- 6.4 Concept Acquisition Is Psychologically Mediated
- 6.5 Objections
- Part III: The Fate of the Faculties Hypothesis.
- 7. Language-Learning: From Behaviorism to Nativism
- 7.1 Chomskyan Nativism: The Core Claims
- 7.2 Chomsky's Review of Skinner: The Case for Representationalism
- 7.3 Generative Grammar: A New Approach to the Psychology of Language
- 7.4 The Poverty of the Stimulus: From Hypothesis-Testing to Nativism
- 7.5 Linguistics as Psychology: From Weak Nativism to Chomskyan Nativism
- 8. The Poverty of the Stimulus
- 8.1 The A Posteriori Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus
- 8.2 The Case for Domain Specificity: The APS versus Putnamian Empiricism
- 8.3 The Case for Weak Nativism: The APS versus Enlightened Empiricism
- 8.4 Children's Errors and the Primary Data
- 8.5 The Predictions of Empiricism
- 8.6 Other versions of the APS
- 9. The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition
- 9.1 The Logical Problem
- 9.2 Guaranteeing Lcarnability
- 9.3 The Case for (DS)-and the Case Against (I)
- 9.4 Some Morals for Language Learners
- 9.5 Substitutes for Negative Data
- 9.6 The Dialectical Role of the Logical Problem
- 10. The Role of Universal Grammar in Language-Learning
- 10.1 The Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus Reiterated
- 10.2 Chomsky's (U): True by Stipulation?
- 10.3 What Is Linguistics About?
- 10.4 Chomsky's (U): An Inference to the Best Explanation?
- 10.5 Hypothesis-Testing and Parameter-Setting
- 10.6 Some Problems with Parameters
- 10.7 Hypothesis-Testing
- 10.8 The 'Iterated' APS Defused
- 10.9 Polemics and Concluding Truculence
- 11. Will the Evidence for Linguistic Nativisim Please Stand Up?
- 11.1 Linguistic Universals
- 11.2 The Distinctiveness of Language
- 11.3 Critical Period Effects on Language Acquisition
- 11.4 Pidgins and Creolization
- 11.5 Conclusory Moralizing
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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