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What's Within?

Nativism Reconsidered

Fiona Cowie

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04514597

Publishers Oxford University Press Inc, January 1999

This powerfully iconoclastic book reconsiders the influential nativist position toward the mind. Nat... Full description

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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, marshaling recent empirical evidence from developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, computer science, and linguistics, provides a crisp and timely critique of Chomsky's nativism and in its place defends a moderately nativist approach to language acquisition. She also takes on the view articulated by nativists such as philosopher Jerry Fodor that learning, particularly concept acquisition, is a mysterious process. Cowie challenges this explanatory pessimism, and argues convincingly that concept acquisition is psychologically explicable. What's Within? is a clear and provocative milestone in the study of the human mind.