Venue and dates
The workshop will run 21-22 May, 2015. Talks will be held at the University of Edinburgh, in the Dugald Stewart Building, room 3.10/3.11 (on the 3rd floor).
Schedule
Perspectives on nativism
A two day inter-disciplinary workshop exploring issues surrounding innate knowledge, including:
- What kinds of knowledge might be innate?
- How might culture and environment support innate structure?
- What is the role of empirical work in exploring the possibility of innate knowledge?
- How does empirical work intersect with more theoretical, conceptual issues surrounding nativism?
- Is the concept of nativism coherent?
- What explanatory power can be gained from positing innate structures?
Speakers
- Balthasar Bickel, Linguistics, University of Zurich
- Gillian Brown, Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews
- Annie Gagliardi, Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- Roger Levy, Linguistics, University of California, San Diego
- Suilin Lavelle , Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
- Caroline Rowland, Psychology, University of Liverpool
Location and schedule
Registration
To register (free!) for the workshop, please click here. Registration includes coffee breaks and lunch both days. For more information, contact us using the form below.
Sponsors
This workshop is made possible by an IASH IIRG (International and Interdisciplinary Research Group) on "Philosophy of the Natural and Human Sciences". Additional support has been generously provided by the Edinburgh Centre of Epistemology, Mind and Normativity.
