Concept

Psychological nativism

Overview

view that certain skills or abilities are "native" or hard-wired into the brain at birth

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

Philosophers who discussed Psychological nativism

• Noam Chomsky
• Jerry Fodor
• Steven Pinker

Related ideas

• Category (Kant)
• Empiricism
• Falsifiability
• Immanuel Kant
• John Locke
• Language
• Literacy
• Predicate (grammar)
• Mind
• Neuron
• Noam Chomsky
• Psychology
• Space
• Time
• Tabula rasa
• Critique of Pure Reason
• Causality
• Jerry Fodor
• Steven Pinker
• Generative grammar
• Human brain
• Wiley (publisher)
• Behaviorism
• A priori and a posteriori

Opposing perspectives

• Empiricism

Place in the tradition

Part of Analytic philosophy.

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