Eric Margolis
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I am currently writing two books (both co-authored with Stephen Laurence):

The Building Blocks of Thought: Concept Nativism and the Debate over Innate Ideas
This book defends a nativist account of the origins and limits of the human conceptual system, providing a comprehensive updating of the nativism-empiricism debate about innate ideas.


Think of a Number: The Cognitive Foundations of Number Concepts
This book offers a theory of how precise number concepts are acquired and explores its implications regarding the nature of mental representation, the role of natural language in thought, our ability to have semantic and epistemic access to abstractions, and the nature of conceptual development.