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Autore |
Machery Edouard |
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Titolo |
Doing without concepts / / Edouard Machery |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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0-19-988564-8 |
0-19-983756-2 |
1-281-99844-3 |
9786611998448 |
0-19-971919-5 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-275) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Concepts in psychology. "Concept" in psychology ; Evidence for the existence of concepts ; What is a psychological theory of concepts? ; Alternative characterizations of the notion of concept ; Conclusion -- Concepts in philosophy. "Concept" in philosophy ; Concepts in philosophy versus concepts in psychology ; How are the psychological and the philosophical theories of concepts connected? Peacocke's simple account ; How are the psychological and the philosophical theories of concepts connected? The foundationalist account ; Conclusion -- The heterogeneity hypothesis. The received view ; The heterogeneity hypothesis ; Hybrid theories of concepts ; Conclusion -- Three fundamental kinds of concepts: prototypes, exemplars, theories. The classical theory of concepts ; The prototype paradigm of concepts ; The exemplar paradigm of concepts ; The theory paradigm of concepts ; Alternative views of concepts ; Three theoretical entities that have little in common ; Conclusion -- Multi-process theories. Multi-process theories ; Examples of multi-process theories ; Conclusion -- Categorization and concept learning. Categorization and concept learning ; Studying categorization and concept learning ; Evidence for the existence of prototypes ; Evidence for the existence of exemplars ; |
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Evidence for the existence of theories ; Organization of the categorization processes and of the concept-learning processes ; Conclusion -- Induction, concept combination, and neuropsychology. Induction ; Concept combination ; Neuropsychology ; Conclusion -- Concept eliminativism. Two inconclusive arguments against the notion of concept ; Natural kinds and scientific eliminativism ; The argument for the elimination of "concept" ; Objections and replies ; Conclusion. |
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In this work, Edouard Machery argues that the dominant psychological theories of concepts fail to provide a framework and that drastic conceptual changes are required to make sense of the research on concepts in psychology and neuropsychology. |
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