What's Within?: Nativism Reconsidered

by Fiona Cowie

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195123840
• ISBN13: 9780195123845
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"