innateness

Khalidi makes no reference to the adaptive value of innate traits, and like Stich he thinks that the idea of innateness should be applicable to disease phenotypes as well as to functional phenotypes (Khalidi 2007, 97).

The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics Griffiths, Paul 2009

Developmental psychobiologists reject a basic idea at the heart of much discussion of innateness, which is that evolution makes development reliable by making it insensitive to environmental parameters.

The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics Griffiths, Paul 2009

It may be that resolving the disputes between the many competing analyses of the innateness concept outlined in Section 4 will require taking these claims more seriously and looking in detail at how nativist researchers use the idea of innateness, perhaps through detailed case studies.

The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics Griffiths, Paul 2009

Nonetheless, there are clear differences between models of the mind with empiricist leanings and models of the mind with nativist leanings, and the notion of innateness may be thought to earn its usefulness by marking these differences.

Concepts Margolis, Eric 2006

(Sydney) are collecting data about scientists 'use of the notion of innateness in several disciplines.

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent Edouard Machery <machery@pitt.edu> 2010

It is contrary to experience and logic to admit that the creative genius follows any path whatever at his choice -- a proposition that Weismann, in his horror of inheritance of acquired characters (which are a kind of innateness) is not afraid to support.

Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron 1877

This kind of innateness has become the established wisdom in cognitive science.

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However, the other, more significant, kind of innateness concerns not the history of the mind but its future.

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However, the very fact that our brains have become so exquisitely adapted for reading looks like an argument against the second kind of innateness - the written in stone kind.

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They are offensive precisely because they violate our intuition about the balance between innateness and self-determination of the moral and cultural qualities of human beings.

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