Contemporary moral psychology has focused on the notion of a universal moral sense, robust to individual and cultural differences. Yet recent evidence has revealed individual differences in the psychological processes for moral judgment: controlled cognition, mental-state reasoning, and emotional responding. We discuss this evidence and its relation to cross-cultural diversity

It is well known that natural languages share certain aspects of their design. For example, across languages, syllables like blif are preferred to lbif. But whether language universals are myths or mentally active constraints-linguistic or otherwise-remains controversial. To address this question, we used fMRI to investigate brain response to four syllable types, arrayed on their linguistic wel...

My intention in this paper is to spell out four great issues that divide philosophers who think about the metaphysics of properties. The issues are largely independent of each other. The way the cats jump on one does not seem greatly to prejudge the way they will jump on the other issues. I shall indicate my preferences, but I shall be as much concerned to survey the scene as to push my particu...

The article is devoted to linguistic universals as one of the most important term typology and foundation comparative research.
 Purpose. analysis aimed at tracing history emergence formation universals, well analyzing available definitions classifications on basis synthesis views famous linguists authors’ own observations, determining place verbal constructions with an aspectual meaning i...

Abstract Bird’s Ultimate Argument sought to show that Armstrong’s N relationships involving categorical universals can’t entail nomic regularities. In N’s place Bird offered the non-categorical SR relation. Two kinds of objection have been raised: either own alternative metaphysics fails in just same way as or target argument may anyway a out problem. My aim is reclaim victory for Bird. I argue...

A computational model of emergent syllable systems is developed based on a set of functional constraints on syllable systems and the assumption that language structure emerges through cumulative change over time. The constraints were derived from general communicative factors as well as from the phonetic principles of perceptual distinctiveness and articulatory ease. Through evolutionary optimi...