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Innateness as Inherited Representation| old_uid | 14635 |
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| title | Innateness as Inherited Representation |
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| start_date | 2014/11/15 |
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| schedule | 14h-14h45 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | This paper outlines an account of the biological information carried by inheritance systems – genetic representations and other inherited representations – and uses it to throw light on debates about innateness. The concept of innateness is used to make inferences between various better-understood properties, like developmental canalization, evolutionary adaptation, heritability, species-typicality, and so on (‘innateness-related properties’). This paper argues that, in non-human organisms, innateness-related properties tend to cluster together when a trait develops in reliance on a genetic representation. The account also shows why inferences between innateness-related properties fail, especially in respect of human psychological and behavioural traits, the development of which is especially reliant on non-genetic sources of inherited representational content. |
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| responsibles | Pradeu, Reynaud |
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