%0 Journal Article
%T Krytyka natywizmu jawnego i ukrytego w badaniach nad dziecięcymi teoriami umysłu
%A Mirski, Robert
%J Psychologia Rozwojowa
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/20843879PR.19.007.10890
%N Tom 24, Numer 2
%P 15-28
%K theory of mind, mindreading, mental representation, nativism, foundationalism, emergence, teoria umysłu, natywizm, emergencja, reprezentacje mentalne, fundacjonizm
%@ 1895-6297
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/psychologia-rozwojowa/artykul/krytyka-natywizmu-jawnego-i-ukrytego-w-badaniach-nad-dzieciecymi-teoriami-umyslu
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	A Critique of Explicit and Implicit Nativism in Research on Children’s Theories of Mind

	The traditional theories of theory-of-mind development – modularist nativism, theory theory, and the two-systems theory – share a common model of mental representation. According to that model, the normative content of representation is encoded in its physical vehicle. In the present article, I point out that this claim entails the view that representation cannot emerge out of non-representational phenomena. This leads to the need of positing foundational mental content – foundationalism – and viewing cognitive development only as a reconfi guration of the innately given representations. As a result, all three models are forced to claim innate mental content, although only the modular nativists explicitly acknowledge it. Further, the idea that mental content is innate faces its own challenges: nativism does not seem to be a tenable position in either the “biological” or “psychological” sense of the term. I argue that nativism is a symptom of theoretical limitations, not a legitimate division of labor between psychology and other sciences.