Fiona Cowie
American philosopher
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Fiona Cowie was born in Sydney, Australia in 1963. She gained her MA at Princeton University in 1991, and a PhD in philosophy, also at Princeton, in 1994. She joined the philosophy faculty at California Institute of Technology in 1992. She became a full professor there in 2010. She specialized in the philosophy of mind, of biology, and of linguistics.
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Awards and distinctions
Cowie's book What's Within? Nativism Reconsidered won the 1999 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities. The book argued that multiple features of the mind are learnt, not innate, opposing Jerry Fodor's view.