• To what extent are mature cognitive capacities a reflection of particular cultures and to what extent are they a product of innate elements?
• How do innate elements interact with culture to achieve mature cognitive capacities?
• How do minds generate and shape cultures?
• How are cultures processed by minds?

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Conference on Culture and the Innate Mind
Department of Philosophy
University of Sheffield
Sheffield
S10 2TN
UK

E-mail: innateness_project@shef.ac.uk

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This conference is the second of a three-year project sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Research Board of the United Kingdom. Additional funding for the project provided by the Cognitive Studies Research Group at the University of Maryland, the Research Group on Evolution and Higher Cognition at Rutgers University, and the Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies at the University of Sheffield.