J. P. Spencer et al. (2009) ask readers to reject the nativist–empiricist dialogue and adopt a new theoretical perspective on cognition, focusing on ‘‘developmental process.’’ This commentary argues that the dialogue between nativism and empiricism is a rich source of insight into the nature and development of human knowledge. Indeed, the dialogue is entering a new and exciting phase, in which ...

Populist rejection of the embedded liberal international order is evident in many Western democracies. This partly attributable to architects this system, who over-promised widespread benefits while ignoring warnings from labour and fair-trade advocates about risks economic security transnational competition. article contrasts Canadian American conservative populist positions on free trade. Glo...

Nativists inspired by Chomsky are apt to provide arguments with the following general form: languages exhibit interesting generalizations that are not suggested by casual (or even intensive) examination of what people actually say; correspondingly, adults (i.e., just about anyone above the age of four) know much more about language than they could plausibly have learned on the basis of their ex...

Many advocates of situated approaches to the study of cognition (e. Thelen and Smith, 1994) explicitly take exception to cognitive science's pronounced nativist turn. 1 Other proponents of situated models seek to mitigate strong nativist claims, by, for example, finding ways to acknowledge innate contributions to cognitive processing while at the same time downplaying those contributions (Wilso...

Carey’s book describes many cases where children develop new concepts with expressive power that could not be constructed out of their input. How does she side-step Fodor’s paradox of radical concept nativism? I suggest it is by rejecting the tacit assumption that psychology can only explain concept acquisition when it occurs by rational inference or other transitions that are explicable-by-con...

This article demonstrates that the authoritarian populist strategy is most appealing when leaders create a sense of crisis and present themselves as having only solution. The underlines three performative methods how Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil offered simple answers for portrayed other political actors responsible ones to be removed. Firstly, nativism presents conservative view on politics should...

Abstract Do populist radical right (PRR) parties fuel affective polarization? If so, how and under which circumstances? Based on a comparative cross-country analysis covering 103 elections in 28 European countries an examination of longitudinal data from the Netherlands, we show that PRR occupy particular position political landscape because they both radiate receive high levels dislike. In oth...

We test the somewhat counter-intuitive expectation that support for populist radical right (PRR) parties at national level is associated with public ethno-traditional cues—a frequent feature in PRR imagery and nativist discourse—abroad. do so by leveraging a large-scale comparative dataset covers voting patterns during Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) between 1999 2019. Looking more than 30,000 co...