Book Details
Title: Concepts : Core Readings
Editors: Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge; July 1999
Level: Advanced Reader
Fields: Philosophy / Philosophy of language - Psycholinguistics
Keywords: prototypes, theory theory, conceptual atomism
ISBN: 0262631938, English, Paperback, 664 pages
Publisher's Abstract:
Concepts: Core Readings traces the develoment of one of the most active areas of investigation in cognitive science. This comprehensive volume brings together the essential background readings from philosophy, psychology, and linguistics, while providing a broad sampling of contemporary research. The first part of the book centers around the fall of the Classical Theory of Concepts in the face of attacks by W. V. O. Quine, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Eleanor Rosch, and others, emphasizing the emergence and development of the Prototype Theory and the controversies it spurred. The second part surveys a broad range of contemporary theories--Neoclassical Theories, the Prototype Theory, the Theory-Theory, and Conceptual Atomism.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | Stephen Laurence and Eric Margolis | ||
| Origins of the Contemporary Study of Concepts | Plato | ||
| The Process of Concept Attainment | Jerome Bruner, Jacqueline Goodnow and George Austin | ||
| On the General Character of Semantic Theory | Jerrold Katz | ||
| Philosophical Skepticism about the Classical Theory | W. V. O. Quine | ||
| Philosophical Investigations, sections 65-78 | Ludwig Wittgenstein | ||
| The Probabilistic Turn: Stereotypes, Prototypes, Exemplars | Hilary Putnam | ||
| Principles of Categorization | Eleanor Rosch | ||
| The Exemplar View | Edward Smith and Douglas Medin | ||
| Critical Reactions to the Probabilistic Turn | Sharon Lee Armstrong, Lila R. Gleitman and Henry Gleitman | ||
| On the Adequacy of Prototype Theory as a Theory of Concepts | Daniel N. Osherson and Edward E. Smith | ||
| Concepts and Stereotypes | Georges Rey | ||
| Current Theories and Research | Ray Jackendoff | ||
| Précis of A Study of Concepts | Christopher Peacocke | ||
| Resisting Primitive Compulsions | Georges Rey | ||
| Can Possession Conditions Individuate Concepts? | Christopher Peacocke | ||
| Rethinking Prototypes | Edward E. Smith, Daniel N. Osherson, Lance J. Rips and Margaret Keane | ||
| Cognitive Models and Prototype Theory | George Lakoff | ||
| The Role of Theories in Conceptual Coherence | Gregory Murphy and Douglas Medin | ||
| Knowledge Acquisition: Enrichment or Conceptual Change? | Susan Carey | ||
| Conceptual Atomism | Jerry A. Fodor, Merrill F. Garrett, Edward C. T. Walker and Cornelia H. Parkes | ||
| Information and Representation | Jerry Fodor | ||
| A Common Structure for Concepts of Individuals, Stuffs and Real Kinds: More Mama, More Milk and More Mouse | Ruth Garrett Millikan | ||
| How to Acquire a Concept | Eric Margolis | ||
| Concept Possession in Infants and Children | Renée Baillargeon | ||
| Insides and Essences: Early Understandings of the Non-Obvious | Susan A. Gelman and Henry M. Wellman | ||
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Margolis, Eric & Stephen Laurence. 1999. Concepts: Core Readings. Cambridge: MIT Press.
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