Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - June 2011 - Volume 34, Issue 03  

Open Peer Commentary

You can't get there from here: Foundationalism and development

Jedediah W. P. Allena1 and Mark H. Bickharda2

a1 Department of Psychology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015. jwa204@lehigh.edu

a2 Department of Philosophy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015. mhb0@lehigh.edu

Abstract

The thesis of our commentary is that the framework used to address what are taken by Carey to be the open issues is highly problematic. The presumed necessity of an innate stock of representational primitives fails to account for the emergence of representation out of a nonrepresentational base. This failure manifests itself in problematic ways throughout Carey's book.

(Online publication May 19 2011)

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