The Innate Mind Volume 2: Culture and

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 innateelements? 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.

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.

Contributors

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1 Introduction: Culture and the Innate Mind

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Tom Simpson, Stephen Stich, Peter Carruthers, and Stephen Laurence

PART I: LEARNING, CULTURE, AND EVOLUTION

2 Culture, Adaptation, and Innateness

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Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson

3 About 17 (+1— 2) Potential Principles about Links between the Innate Mind and Culture: Preadaptation, Predispositions, Preferences, Pathways, and Domains

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Paul Rozin

4 Steps toward an Evolutionary Psychology of a Culture-Dependent Species

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Daniel M.T. Fessler

5 Human Groups as Adaptive Units: Toward a Permanent Consensus

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David Sloan Wilson

6 The Baldwin Effect and Genetic Assimilation: Contrasting Explanatory Foci and Gene Concepts in Two Approaches to an Evolutionary Process

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Paul E. Griffiths

7 The Baldwin Effect and Genetic Assimilation: Reply to Griffiths

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David Papineau

8 Mental Number Lines

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Marcus Giaquinto

PART II: MODULARITY AND COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE

9 Modularity in Language and Theory of Mind: What Is the Evidence?

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Michael Siegal and Luca Surian

10 Culture and Modularity

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Dan Sperber and Lawrence Hirschfeld

11 Shaping Social Environments with Simple Recognition Heuristics

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Peter M. Todd and Annerieke Heuvelink

12 Simple Heuristics Meet Massive Modularity

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Peter Carruthers

13 Modularity and Design Reincarnation

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H. Clark Barrett

14 Cognitive Load and Human Decision, or, Three Ways of Rolling the Rock Uphill

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Kim Sterelny

PART III: MORALITY, NORMS, AND RELIGION

15 How Good Is the Linguistic Analogy?

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Susan Dwyer

16 Is Human Morality Innate?

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Richard Joyce

17 A Framework for the Psychology of Norms

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Chandra Sekhar Sripada and Stephen Stich

18 Religion's Innate Origins and Evolutionary Background

302

Scott Atran

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References

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Index

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