The blind storyteller : how we reason about human nature / Iris Berent.
The blind storyteller : how we reason about human nature / Iris Berent.
The blind storyteller : how we reason about human nature / Iris Berent.
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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G 2021/2736
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English
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Physical content
x, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
1. Know Thyself -- Part I. What We Know. A. Who's Afraid of Innate Ideas? 2. Innateness Stories -- B. The Rich Mental Lives of Infants. 3. Object and Number -- 4. The Social World -- 5. The Dawn of Language -- C. Our Blindness to Innate Ideas. 6. Nativist Intuitions -- 7. The Tempest Is Brewing -- 8...
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Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2020]
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"Do newborns think? Do they know that 'three' is greater than 'two'? Do they prefer 'right' to 'wrong'? What about emotions--do newborns recognize happiness or anger? If they do, then how are our inborn thoughts and feelings encoded in our bodies? Could they persist after we die? Going all the way back to ancient Greece, human nature and the mind-b...
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The blind storyteller : how we reason about human nature / Iris Berent.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2020
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G 2021/2736
Record Identifier
74VKarMo76LX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKarMo76LX
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ISBN
0190061928
9780190061920
DDC
128.2
MMS ID
991024441627802626
