The conceptual mind : new directions in the study of concepts / edited by Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Margolis, Eric, 1968- editor.

Laurence, Stephen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Concepts.

Philosophy of mind.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 714 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"The study of concepts has advanced dramatically in recent years, with exciting new findings and theoretical developments. Core concepts have been investigated in greater depth and new lines of inquiry have blossomed, with researchers from an ever broader range of disciplines making important contributions. In this volume, leading philosophers and cognitive scientists offer original essays that present the state-of-the-art in the study of concepts. These essays, all commissioned for this book, do not merely present the usual surveys and overviews; rather, they offer the latest work on concepts by a diverse group of theorists as well as discussions of the ideas that should guide research over the next decade. The book is an essential companion volume to the earlier Concepts: Core Readings, the definitive source for classic texts on the nature of concepts. The essays cover concepts as they relate to animal cognition, the brain, evolution, perception, and language, concepts across cultures, concept acquisition and conceptual change, concepts and normativity, concepts in context, and conceptual individuation"--MIT CogNet.

Contents:

1. Conceptual learning by miniature brains / Aurore Avarguès-Weber and Martin Giurfa

2. Convergent cognitive evolution across animal taxa : comparisons of chimpanzees, corvids, and elephants / Joshua M. Plotnik and Nicola S. Clayton

3. The evolution of concepts about agents : or, what do animals recognize when they recognize an individual? / Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney

4. Missed connections : a connectivity-constrained account of the representation and organization of object concepts / Bradford Z. Mahon

5. Concept nativism and neural plasticity / Stephen Laurence and Eric Margolis

6. The evolution of conceptual design / H. Clark Barrett

7. How natural selection shapes conceptual structure : human intuitions and concepts of ownership / Pascal Boyer

8. Burge on perception / Jerry A. Fodor

9. Observational concepts / Daniel A. Weiskopf

10. What's in a concept? Analog versus parametric concepts in LCCM theory / Barbara C. Malt, Silvia P. Gennari, Mutsumi Imai, Eef Ameel, Noburo Saji, and Asifa Majid

12. The representation of events in language and cognition / Anna Papafragou

13. Relations : language, epistemologies, categories, and concepts / Douglas Medin, bethany ojalehto, Sandra Waxman, and Megan Bang

14. Innate conceptual primitives manifested in the languages of the world and in infant cognition / Anna Wierzbicka

15. Why theories of concepts should not ignore the problem of acquisition / Susan Carey

16. Conceptual innovation on the frontiers of science / Nancy J. Nersessian

17. Does the infant possess a moral concept? / J. Kiley Hamlin

18. Normative concepts / Charles W. Kalish

19. All concepts are ad hoc concepts / Daniel Casasanto and Gary Lupyan

20. By default : concepts are accessed in a context-independent manner / Edouard Machery

21. Logical concepts and associative characterizations / Elisabeth Camp

22. Concepts in a probabilistic language of thought / Noah D. Goodman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, and Tobias Gerstenberg

23. Concepts in the semantic triangle / James A. Hampton

24. Grounding concepts / Frank C. Keil and Jonathan F. Kominsky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Conceptual mind.

ISBN:

0262326876

9780262326872

9780262326865

0262326868

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