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Faculty before folk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Justin Leiber
Affiliation:
Philosophy Department, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004 jleiber@uh.edu bentley.uh.edu/philosophy/leiber/jleiber.htm

Abstract

Pace Atran, (1) folk physics, (2) folk biology, and (3) folk psychology rest on informationally encapsulated modules that emerge before language: a gifted austic person who can see objects and animals perfectly well can nonetheless be incommunicatively mind blind.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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