University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Perspect Psychol Sci. 2008 Jan;3(1):2-13. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6916.2008.00056.x.
The notion of innate ideas has long been the subject of intense debate in the fields of philosophy and cognitive science. Over the past few decades, methodological advances have made it possible for developmental researchers to begin to examine what innate ideas-what innate concepts and principles-might contribute to infants ' knowledge acquisition in various core domains. This article focuses on the domain of physical reasoning and on Spelke's (1988, 1994) proposal that principles of continuity and cohesion guide infants' interpretation of physical events. The article reviews recent evidence that these two principles are in fact corollaries of a single and more powerful principle of persistence, which states that objects persist, as they are, in time and space.
先天观念的概念长期以来一直是哲学和认知科学领域激烈争论的主题。在过去的几十年中，方法论的进步使得发展研究人员能够开始研究先天观念——先天概念和原则——可能会对婴儿在各个核心领域的知识获取产生什么影响。本文主要关注物理推理领域，以及斯佩尔克（Spelke）（1988 年，1994 年）提出的连续性和内聚性原则指导婴儿对物理事件的解释的观点。本文回顾了最近的证据，证明这两个原则实际上是一个更强大的持续性原则的推论，该原则指出，物体在时间和空间中保持不变。
