Tradition

Innatism

Overview

philosophical and epistemological doctrine that holds that the mind is not a "blank slate" at birth but is born with ideas and knowledge

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Innatism

• Linda Zagzebski
• John Locke
• René Descartes
• David Hume
• William James
• Richard Cumberland (philosopher)

Related ideas

• Empiricism
• Genetics
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• Immanuel Kant
• Psycholinguistics
• John Locke
• Mind
• Noam Chomsky
• Plato
• Sense
• René Descartes
• Socrates
• State of nature
• Experience
• Empirical evidence
• Tabula rasa
• Wilhelm von Humboldt
• Jerry Fodor
• God
• Meno
• Cognitive psychology
• Rationalism
• Classical liberalism

Place in the tradition

Part of Outline of philosophy.

Narrower topics:

• Genetics
• Psycholinguistics
• Truism
• Phenotype
• Poverty of the stimulus
• Genotype

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