Philosophy of Biology

562 Karen Neander come into play. In that case we can say that, while the frog’s perceptual system was adapted for producingRs i ...

Biological Approaches to Mental Representation 563 representations refer toCs if mechanisms were adapted for being caused byCsto ...

564 Karen Neander Opinion is divided as to whether this response is satisfactory. Those who find it unsatisfactory are often mov ...

Biological Approaches to Mental Representation 565 [Dretske, 1986] F. Dretske. Misrepresentation. In R. Bogdan (ed.),Belief: For ...

INNATENESS Ariew As Paul Griffiths [2002] puts it, “innateness” is associated with different clus- ters of related ideas where e ...

568 Ariew color really is largely innate... much as everyone had hazily supposed. Likewise birdsong in a lot of cases; likewise ...

Innateness 569 Perhaps ascribing a character to ‘growth’ is all that is required to underwrite the biological concept of innate. ...

570 We can critique Samuels’s [2002] account of innateness on similar grounds. He avers that innateness in psychology is a psych ...

Innateness 571 traits grow. Of course it is crucial that we pick out the right environmental factors, those that exhibitdifferen ...

572 rather than a rough innate/triggered/acquired distinction. But, to sometimes pre- fer a detailed causal story is not to unde ...

Innateness 573 In this sense innate ascriptions serve a similar explanatory role as do fitness ascriptions in evolutionary biolo ...

574 (more specifically, innate in the context of language cues in the environment of the learner). Over the years, Chomsky has p ...

Innateness 575 ascribing innate/acquired to a trait is to provide a rough distinction between dis- tinct developmental pathways. ...

576 would be said to be more invariant, and, on Sober’s account, more innate. Three related problems emerge from Sober’s account ...

Innateness 577 [Ariew, 1999]). For example, consider the intestinal bacterium,clostrium difficile (c. diff.), that we humans inv ...

578 Figure 1. (taken from [Waddington, 1957]) C. H. Waddington introduced canalization to the developmental biology liter- ature ...

Innateness 579 may be canalized to a greater degree if it produces its end state across a greater environmental range than the o ...

580 graph, more than being insensitive to fluctuations, its development is completely independent of auditory cues. Mameli and B ...

Innateness 581 innateness is too restrictive. As Mameli and Bateson themselves point out some fitness-detrimental diseases devel ...

582 fact, the development of Type 1 songs develop independently from any auditory cue. To translate this into an account of inna ...