Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and Cognition

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.

"If you are impressed by our species' cross-cultural variation, but mystified by how it emerges, then read this book. If you are unimpressed by our cross-cultural variation, but moved by our universality, then read this book. You will learn that of all the species that have existed on earth, we are truly bizarre, at once both clones of each other and yet remarkably different."--Marc Hauser, Harvard College Professor of Psychology and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and author of Wild Minds and Moral Minds.

• Preface List of Contributors 1: TOM SIMPSON, University of York, STEPHEN STICH, Rutgers University, PETER CARRUTHERS, University of Maryland, and STEPHEN LAURENCE, University of Sheffield: Introduction: Culture and the Innate Mind PART ONE: LEARNING, CULTURE, AND EVOLUTION 2: ROBERT BOYD, University of California at Los Angeles; PETER RICHERSON, University of California at Davis: Culture, Adaptation, and Innateness 3: PAUL ROZIN, University of Pennsylvania: About 17 (+/- 2) Potential Principles about Links Between the Innate Mind and Culture: Preadaptation, Predispositions, Preferences, Pathways, and Domains 4: DANIEL FESSLER, University of California at Los Angeles: Steps Towards an Evolutionary Psychology of a Culture-Dependent Species 5: DAVID SLOAN WILSON, Binghampton: Human Groups as Adaptive Units: Toward a Permanent Consensus 6: PAUL GRIFFITHS, University of Queensland: The Baldwin Effect and Genetic Assimilation: Contrasting Explanatory Foci and Gene Concepts in Two Approaches to an Evolutionary Process 7: DAVID PAPINEAU, King's College London: The Baldwin Effect and Genetic Assimilation: Reply to Griffiths 8: MARCUS GIAQUINTO, University College London: Mental Number Lines PART TWO: MODULARITY AND COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE 9: MICHAEL SIEGAL, University of Sheffield and LUCA SURIAN, University of Trieste: Modularity in Language and Theory of Mind: What is the Evidence? 10: DAN SPERBER, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris and LAWRENCE HIRSCHFELD, University of Michigan: Culture and Modularity 11: PETER TODD, Indiana University at Bloomington and ANNERIEKE HEUVELINK, Vrije University, Amsterdam: Shaping Social Environments with Simple Recognition Heuristics 12: PETER CARRUTHERS, University of Maryland: Simple Heuristics Meet Massive Modularity 13: H CLARK BARRETT, University of California at Los Angeles: Modularity and Design Reincarnation 14: KIM STERELNY, Victoria University in Wellington and Australian National University: Cognitive Load and Human Decision, or, Three Ways of Rolling the Rock Uphill PART THREE: MORALITY, NORMS, AND RELIGION 15: SUSAN DWYER, University of Maryland Baltimore County: How Good is the Linguistic Analogy? 16: RICHARD JOYCE, Australian National University: Is Human Morality Innate? 17: CHANDRA SEKHA SRIPADA, University of Michigan and STEPHEN STICH, Rutgers University: A Framework for the Psychology of Norms 18: SCOTT ATRAN, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, and University of Michigan: Religions Innate Origins and Evolutionary Background References