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Nature, Nurture, and Nous: The Role of Reflection and Reason in the Nature-Nurture Debate

2023-06-28

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<p>Biological and social factors (i.e., nature and nurture) interact to give rise to specific human attributes; but they alone are insufficient to explain our most uniquely human attributes: our creative ideas, artifacts, and cultures, and the diverse worldviews that underlie them. We posit that these attributes stem from the capacity for an autonomous, generative stream of thought; it relies on nous. The word ‘no...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/qdesb

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