Concepts: The Very Idea
Harnad, Stevan (2009) Concepts: The Very Idea. In, Canadian Philosophical Association Symposium on Machery on Doing without Concepts, Carleton University,
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Machery (2009) suggests that the concept of “concept” is too heterogeneous to serve as a “natural kind” for scientific explanation, so cognitive science should do without concepts. I second the suggestion, and propose substituting, in place of concepts, inborn and acquired sensorimotor category-detectors and category-names combined into propositions that define and describe further categories.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Commentary On: Machery, Edouard (2009) Doing Without Concepts. Oxford. Event Dates: May 27 |
| Keywords: | concepts, categories, cognition, natural kinds, Machery, representations, symbol grounding |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Web & Internet Science |
| Item ID: | 268029 |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Oct 2009 13:50 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2012 16:00 |
| Contributors: | Harnad, Stevan (Author) |
| Date: | May 2009 |
| Additional Information: | Commentary On: Machery, Edouard (2009) Doing Without Concepts. Oxford. Event Dates: May 27 |
| Status: | Unpublished |
| Contact Email Address: | harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/268029 |
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