Fiona Cowie

Fiona Cowie (August 21, 1963-December 9, 2018) was a professor of philosophy at California Institute of Technology. She specialized in the philosophy of mind, of biology, and of linguistics.

Life

Fiona Cowie was born in Sydney, Australia in 1963. She joined the philosophy faculty at California Institute of Technology in 1992. She specialized in the philosophy of mind, of biology, and of linguistics.

Awards and distinctions

Cowie's book What's Within? Nativism Reconsidered won the 1999 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities.

Works

Books

Articles

The logical problem of language acquisition, 1997 Mad dog nativism, 1998 On Cussing in Church: In Defence of What's Within?, 2001 Innateness and language, 2008 Us, them, and it: Modules, genes, environments and evolution, 2008 Why isn't Stich an eliminativist?, 2009

Reviews

Ask Darwin's Grandma (review of Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts, 2000) Of Theft and Honest Toil (review of Mind in Everyday Life and Cognitive Science, 2001)