Doing without concepts / / Edouard Machery
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| Autore: |
Machery Edouard
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| Titolo: |
Doing without concepts / / Edouard Machery
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 150.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Concepts |
| Abstraction | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-275) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 ; 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Doing without concepts |
| ISBN: | 0-19-988564-8 |
| 0-19-983756-2 | |
| 1-281-99844-3 | |
| 9786611998448 | |
| 0-19-971919-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910954476803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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