Faculty before folk

Journal/Book: Behav Brain Sci. 1998; 21: 40 West 20TH Street, New York, NY 10011-4211. Cambridge Univ Press. 579-580.

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 sec objects and animals perfectly well can nonetheless be incommunicatively mind blind.

Note: Editorial Leiber J, Univ Houston, Dept Philosophy, Houston,TX 77004 USA

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