List of Contributors
1. Introduction: Nativism Past and Present, Tom Simpson, Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, and Stephen Stich
PART ONE: ARCHITECTURE
2. What Developmental Biology Can Tell Us about Innateness, Gary F. Marcus
3. Innateness and (Bayesian) Visual Perception: Reconciling Nativism and Development, Brian J. Scholl
4. Modularity and Relevance: How Can a Massively Modular Mind Be Flexible and Context-Sensitive?, Dan Sperber
5. Distinctively Human Thinking: Modular Precursors and Components, Peter Carruthers
6. Language and the Development of Spatial Reasoning, Anna Shusterman and Elizabeth Spelke
7. The Complexity of Cognition: Tractability Arguments for Massive Modularity, Richard Samuels
8. Toward a Reasonable Nativism, Tom Simpson
PART TWO: LANGUAGE AND CONCEPTS
9. Strong versus Weak Adaptationism in Cognition and Language, Scott Atran
10. The Innate Endowment for Language: Underspecified or Overspecified?, Mark C. Baker
11. Brass Tacks in Linguistic Theory: Innate Grammatical Principles, Stephen Crain, Andrea Gualmini, and Paul Pietroski
12. Two Insights about Naming in the Preschool Child, Susan A. Gelman
13. Number and Natural Language, Stephen Laurence and Eric Margolis
PART THREE: THEORY OF MIND
14. Parent-Offspring Conflict and the Development of Social Understanding, Daniel J. Povinelli, Christopher G. Prince, and Todd M. Preuss
15. Reasoning about Intentionality in Preverbal Infants, Susan C. Johnson
16. What Neurodevelopmental Disorders Can Reveal about Cognitive Architecture: The Example of Theory of Mind, Helen Tager-Flusberg
PART FOUR: MOTIVATION
17. The Plausibility of Adaptations for Homicide, Joshua D. Duntley and David M. Buss
18. Resolving the Debate on Innate Ideas: Learnability Constraints and the Evolved Interpenetration of Motivational and Conceptual Functions, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, and a. Clark Barrett
19. Cognitive Neuroscience and the Structure of the Moral Mind, Joshua Greene
20. Innateness and Moral Psychology, Shaun Nichols
References
Index