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| Paul Churchland - Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments | |||
| Paul Churchland (1942), Canadian philosopher of mind and neurophilosopher. His major works include Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind (1979), A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science (1989), and The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain (1995). His fields of specialization are neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of neuroscience.
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| Innate: abilities, ideas, dispositions, which are not acquired in the course of a development, but are present in an organism from the outset. - In philosophy N. Chomsky and J. Locke are relevant authors on this topic._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
| Author | Item | More concepts for author | |
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| Chomsky, Noam | Innateness | Chomsky | |
| Churchland, Paul | Innateness | Churchland | |
| Davidson, Donald | Innateness | Davidson | |
| Deacon, Terrence W. | Innateness | Deacon | |
| Field, Hartry | Innateness | Field | |
| Fodor, Jerry | Innateness | Fodor | |
| Genz, Hennig | Innateness | Genz | |
| Leibniz, G.W. | Innateness | Leibniz | |
| Locke, John | Innateness | Locke | |
| Millikan, Ruth | Innateness | Millikan | |
| Piaget, Jean | Innateness | Piaget | |
| Vollmer, Gerhard | Innateness | Vollmer | |
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