Concepts: The Very Idea
Concepts: The Very Idea
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.
concepts, categories, cognition, natural kinds, Machery, representations, symbol grounding
Harnad, Stevan
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Harnad, Stevan
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Harnad, Stevan
(2009)
Concepts: The Very Idea.
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.
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Accepted/In Press date: May 2009
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Commentary On: Machery, Edouard (2009) Doing Without Concepts. Oxford. Event Dates: May 27
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Canadian Philosophical Association Symposium on Machery on Doing without Concepts, Carleton University, 2009-05-27
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concepts, categories, cognition, natural kinds, Machery, representations, symbol grounding
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Web & Internet Science
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/268029
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