philo-notes-example

# Moderator

Is human nature innate?

# Chomsky

Tags: /human nature/schematism/language/

Person knowing a language
* Exposed to it through experience
* Data is small relative to amount of knowledge speaker demonstrates

Languages are limited in how they can appear

Therefore the individual must contribute the schematic structure & content
* Child begins with a schematism (instinctive knowledge)
* This must be part of human nature
* This must be true for other domains

###### Human nature and schematism
Innate schematisms are human nature

# Moderator

For Foucault are there several schematisms?

# Foucault

Tags: /human nature/epistemological indicator/

Distrusts concept of human nature

Concepts have different degrees of elaboration
* Peripheral concepts
* Well-established concepts

Peripheral concepts
* Have an organizing role in science
* Not instruments of analysis
* Not descriptive either
* They point out problems, or certain fields in need of study
* Not a scientific concept
* 'Epistemological indicator'
* Index of problems yet to be uncovered

Biology example
* Reflex is a well-established concept
* 17th 18th century, life was hardly used when classifying beings
* End of 18th century: problem of internal organization of these natural beings
* Thanks to microsocope new things could be seen
* Developments in chemistry have highlighted certain problems
  * Connections between chemical reactions & physiological processes
* So the new field of life appeared for biologists
* Life pointed out new fields of study

Can one say the same about human nature?
Human nature is not a scientific concept

See [link](#Human nature and schematism)