The nature–nurture controversy has been with us since it was first outlined by Plato and
Aristotle. Nobody likes it anymore. All reasonable scholars today agree that genes and …

From the staunchest Chomskyan nativist to the most domain-general empiricist, all scientists
concur that development involves contributions from both genes and environment. The …

Innateness is one of the central concepts of cognitive science; but it is also a source of
considerable confusion. In this article, I survey recent attempts to understand the notion of …

Innateness hypotheses have played a central role in the development of cognitive science
and have been invoked to explain a broad array of psychological phenomena, including …

Cognitive scientists often employ the notion of innateness without defining it. The issue is,
how is innateness defined in biology? Some critics contend that innateness is not a …

Lorenz proposed in his (1935) articulation of a theory of behavioral instincts that the
objective of ethology is to distinguish behaviors that are``innate''from those that …

In molecular developmental biology innateness seems as antiquated a theoretical construct
as instinct and equally peripheral to any actual account of gene regulation or …

The concept of innateness is often used in explanations and classifications of biological and
cognitive traits. But does this concept have a legitimate role to play in contemporary scientific …

We are as we are and we live as we do because of the interplay of our inherent natures and
the world around us. This much is uncontroversial. But one may wonder about the extent of …

The concept of innateness is a part of folk wisdom but is also used by biologists and
cognitive scientists. This concept has a legitimate role to play in science only if the colloquial …