Been reading "What is Innateness?" by Paul Griffiths (2002) philpapers.org/rec/EGRWII in which he offers this very sound advice:
November 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Been reading "What is Innateness?" by Paul Griffiths (2002) philpapers.org/rec/EGRWII in which he offers this very sound advice:
Innateness in chicks and babies
March 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Innateness in chicks and babies
There's a new 'Innateness and Language' entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by my colleague Gabe Dupre
plato.stanford.edu/entries/inna...
plato.stanford.edu/entries/inna...
Innateness and Language (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu
June 29, 2026 at 8:33 PM
There's a new 'Innateness and Language' entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by my colleague Gabe Dupre
plato.stanford.edu/entries/inna...
plato.stanford.edu/entries/inna...
An excellent new addition to the Philosophy of Mind Elements series I edit: Innateness in Mind by Peter Carruthers. Free to download till 3rd July! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Innateness in Mind
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Mind and Language - Innateness in Mind
www.cambridge.org
June 24, 2026 at 7:06 PM
An excellent new addition to the Philosophy of Mind Elements series I edit: Innateness in Mind by Peter Carruthers. Free to download till 3rd July! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Now, we didn't argue back against the homophobes by producing a scientific "proof" for the innateness of homosexuality, did we? We didn't actually convince the campaigning homophobes they were wrong. Most of them are still homophobes. We convinced everyone else. 15/
December 28, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Now, we didn't argue back against the homophobes by producing a scientific "proof" for the innateness of homosexuality, did we? We didn't actually convince the campaigning homophobes they were wrong. Most of them are still homophobes. We convinced everyone else. 15/
#BUCLD50 Symposium: “Innateness is not a dirty word: Reframing the origins of language development”, by Shanley Allen, Marisa Casillas, Alejandrina Cristia, Michael C. Frank, Caroline Rowland, Leher Singh, and Paul Bloom!
Learn more at:
www.bu.edu/bucld/
#Innateness #LLM #LanguageDevelopment
Learn more at:
www.bu.edu/bucld/
#Innateness #LLM #LanguageDevelopment
October 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
#BUCLD50 Symposium: “Innateness is not a dirty word: Reframing the origins of language development”, by Shanley Allen, Marisa Casillas, Alejandrina Cristia, Michael C. Frank, Caroline Rowland, Leher Singh, and Paul Bloom!
Learn more at:
www.bu.edu/bucld/
#Innateness #LLM #LanguageDevelopment
Learn more at:
www.bu.edu/bucld/
#Innateness #LLM #LanguageDevelopment
innateness of sex assigned at birth, not innateness of being trans
August 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
innateness of sex assigned at birth, not innateness of being trans
Notes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025
August 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Notes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025
Uh, yeah, this is why scientists should talk to historians sometimes. Engaging with the historical context of understandings of handedness and its innateness really should have been step one here.
Your dominant hand isn't better because it's "born" that way. It's just had more practice, a new PNAS study finds. The skill gap appears only when you pick up a tool, suggesting handedness is, in part, a fingerprint of human tool-use culture.
Your dominant hand is made, not born
Most people favor one hand, and that hand tends to be the better one at writing, at throwing, at managing chopsticks. The long-standing view is that the dominant hand is “born” more capable, its skill...
www.santafe.edu
June 30, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Uh, yeah, this is why scientists should talk to historians sometimes. Engaging with the historical context of understandings of handedness and its innateness really should have been step one here.
institutional covid denial/minimization depends completely on innateness theories of humanity. However you are is just genetics. Whatever happened to you is just genetics.
And so many people (across political spectrum) are now convinced that they won’t become one of those bodies, they are genetically special and everyone who died or got disabled is just weak.
February 21, 2026 at 2:31 PM
institutional covid denial/minimization depends completely on innateness theories of humanity. However you are is just genetics. Whatever happened to you is just genetics.
we organized a thing! and people came! highlights from the foundations of mind workshop on “innateness” 🐣
www.instagram.com/p/DIV_nDVRQl...
www.instagram.com/p/DIV_nDVRQl...
April 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
we organized a thing! and people came! highlights from the foundations of mind workshop on “innateness” 🐣
www.instagram.com/p/DIV_nDVRQl...
www.instagram.com/p/DIV_nDVRQl...
Fei xu kicking off the foundations of mind workshop on innateness!
April 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Fei xu kicking off the foundations of mind workshop on innateness!
I think the reason the usage here is slur-shaped is innateness. No one would refer to every car as a gas-guzzler, a clunker, etc.
August 25, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I think the reason the usage here is slur-shaped is innateness. No one would refer to every car as a gas-guzzler, a clunker, etc.
The new Sora apparently fails in the same ways as its predecessor, exactly as I predicted the day after the original came out.
Super interesting from the perspective of innateness and empiricism debate.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Super interesting from the perspective of innateness and empiricism debate.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Sora still appears to have trouble with physics
Exactly as I warned in February
open.substack.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:51 AM
The new Sora apparently fails in the same ways as its predecessor, exactly as I predicted the day after the original came out.
Super interesting from the perspective of innateness and empiricism debate.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Super interesting from the perspective of innateness and empiricism debate.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
i do agree that our rights shouldnt be tied to biological innateness—however, at least in the US, they often *are* and few beyond our community seem interested in changing that
January 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
i do agree that our rights shouldnt be tied to biological innateness—however, at least in the US, they often *are* and few beyond our community seem interested in changing that
Sensible advice that was also well argued by Mameli and Bateson, e.g. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...
An evaluation of the concept of innateness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The concept of innateness is often used in explanations and classifications of biological
and cognitive traits. But does this concept have a legitimate role to play in contemporary
scientific discours...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Sensible advice that was also well argued by Mameli and Bateson, e.g. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...
These critiques (especially Lehrman's) convinced luminaries in ethology such as Niko Tinbergen--who pioneered the modern concept of innateness--that usage of innateness in animal behavior had reached its natural conclusion. Development overcame the dialectical opposition of innate vs. acquired.
October 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
These critiques (especially Lehrman's) convinced luminaries in ethology such as Niko Tinbergen--who pioneered the modern concept of innateness--that usage of innateness in animal behavior had reached its natural conclusion. Development overcame the dialectical opposition of innate vs. acquired.
with that logic you can just as easily say that "non-innateness" gives legitimacy to conversion therapy
August 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
with that logic you can just as easily say that "non-innateness" gives legitimacy to conversion therapy
Remember Chomsky's arguments about language innateness based on its putative un-learnability? Those arguments hinge on a pretty crazy theory of grammar. Here is Ted Gibson's summary of the original claims and a proposed solution in the form of dependency grammar:
tinyurl.com/yzjrpbb8
tinyurl.com/yzjrpbb8
April 20, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Remember Chomsky's arguments about language innateness based on its putative un-learnability? Those arguments hinge on a pretty crazy theory of grammar. Here is Ted Gibson's summary of the original claims and a proposed solution in the form of dependency grammar:
tinyurl.com/yzjrpbb8
tinyurl.com/yzjrpbb8
the basis of antifascism is rejection of “innateness” theories about humans. we’re all more or less the same. there aren’t types of humans.
July 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
the basis of antifascism is rejection of “innateness” theories about humans. we’re all more or less the same. there aren’t types of humans.
Because I am unable to surmount the insurmountable task of describing and narrativizing each little way participating in society penetrates my behavior I am simply going to describe this specific trait of mine as a spiritual innateness 🤗
December 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Because I am unable to surmount the insurmountable task of describing and narrativizing each little way participating in society penetrates my behavior I am simply going to describe this specific trait of mine as a spiritual innateness 🤗
April 30, 2026 at 7:25 PM