caa a22 4500 605448493 CHVBK 20210128100137.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10539-014-9465-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10539-014-9465-8 O'Neill Elizabeth Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1017 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Avenue, 15260, Pittsburgh, PA, USA aut Relativizing innateness: innateness as the insensitivity of the appearance of a trait with respect to specified environmental variation [Elektronische Daten] [Elizabeth O'Neill] I object to eliminativism about innateness and André Ariew's identification of innateness with canalization, and I propose a new treatment of innateness. I first argue that the concept of innateness is serving a valuable function in a diverse set of research contexts, and in these contexts, claims about innateness are best understood as claims about the insensitivity of the appearance of a trait to certain variations in the environment. I then argue that innateness claims, like claims about canalization, should be explicitly relativized to the specific range of environmental variations of interest to the scientist. My account characterizes an important way in which scientists are employing the concept and offers a way for scientists to carry on using the concept in their research while minimizing confusion and miscommunication. There is a fruitful research program, I claim, in which scientists employ the concept of innateness to help distinguish environmental factors of interest that have a causal influence on the appearance of a trait from those that do not. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Innateness nationallicence Canalization nationallicence Insensitivity nationallicence Traits nationallicence André Ariew nationallicence Eliminativism nationallicence Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/2(2015-03-01), 211-225 0169-3867 30:2<211 2015 30 10539 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-014-9465-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-014-9465-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- O'Neill Elizabeth Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1017 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Avenue, 15260, Pittsburgh, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/2(2015-03-01), 211-225 0169-3867 30:2<211 2015 30 10539