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Concepts: The Very Idea

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. (In Press)

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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
Additional Information: Commentary On: Machery, Edouard (2009) Doing Without Concepts. Oxford. Event Dates: May 27
Venue - Dates: Canadian Philosophical Association Symposium on Machery on Doing without Concepts, Carleton University, 2009-05-27
Keywords: concepts, categories, cognition, natural kinds, Machery, representations, symbol grounding
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 268029
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/268029
PURE UUID: e7992266-980e-48bf-900d-07b38882856b
ORCID for Stevan Harnad: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6153-1129

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Date deposited: 07 Oct 2009 13:50
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:48

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