Download or read book What's Within? written by Fiona Cowie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work reconsiders the influential nativist position towards the mind. It claims that the view that certain skills are hardwired into the brain is mistaken, arguing that nativism is an unstable amalgam of two quite different - and probably inconsistent - theses.