The Modern Synthesis of Darwinism and genetics regards non-genetic factors as merely constraints on the genetic variations that result in the characteristics of organisms. Even though the environment (including social interactions and culture) is as necessary as genes in terms of selection and inheritance, it does not contain the information that controls the development of the traits. S. Oyama...

In the past few years, it would appear that the public discourse relating to social and demographic developments in the US has become louder and more fearful. The current election cycle has seen at least two topics elevated in the public discourse, resulting in almost around the clock coverage by the major US networks [1]: (1) Hispanic and Muslim immigration and (2) the social and civil rights ...

While the debate between nativism and empiricism exists since several decades, surprisingly few common learning problems have been proposed for assessing the two opposing views. Most empiricist researchers have focused on a relatively small number of linguistic problems, such as Auxiliary Fronting or Anaphoric One. In the current paper we extend the number of common test cases to a much larger ...

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...

Guided by sense of belonging and counterspaces, this critical ethnographic study investigates the people, places, spaces collegians that are Latinx undocu/DACAmented use to persist toward graduation amidst an ongoing anti-im/migrant sociopolitical climate. Findings reveal (a) connections built with peers who share racial backgrounds have liminal legal statuses, (b) supportive affirming faculty,...

Abstract This article situates the largest political party in world, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) India, within literature on populist radical right. After providing a brief overview of Hindutva ideology and organizations, with particular focus BJP, it analyzes how nativism, populism, authoritarianism are key defining elements both theory practice for BJP. It further examines two important ideo...

Our commentary is mainly concerned with Kissine's first argument in his 2021 target article: that mind reading not necessarily needed for pragmatics. We fully agree Kissine, and we present (i) additional recent empirical evidence support of this view (ii) a new model pragmatics reading, based on the situation language use rather than type pragmatic phenomenon instantiated. The last part our con...

We conceptualize and measure right-wing populism (RWP) as a three-dimensional concept, explicitly implicitly, based on online surveys implicit association tests (IATs) in Germany Switzerland. Confirmatory factor analyses show that explicit populism, nativism, authoritarianism establish the latent RWP-construct they are each related to their respective counterpart. However, RWP ideology does not...