Margolis, E. orcid.org/0000-0001-5145-8976 and Laurence, S. orcid.org/0000-0001-6464-4620 (2024) Concepts, core knowledge, and the rationalism–empiricism debate. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 47. e137. ISSN: 0140-525X
Abstract
While Spelke provides powerful support for concept nativism, her focus on understanding concept nativism through six innate core knowledge systems is too confining. There is also no reason to suppose that the curse of a compositional mind constitutes a principled reason for positing less innate structure in explaining the origins of concepts. Any solution to such problems must take into account poverty of the stimulus considerations, which argue for postulating more innate structure, not less.
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Keywords: | Humans; Knowledge; Concept Formation; Empiricism |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 21 Aug 2025 10:14 |
Last Modified: | 22 Aug 2025 10:15 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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Identification Number: | 10.1017/s0140525x23003072 |
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