Eliminating the “concept” concept
Eliminating the “concept” concept
Machery 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, prototypes, symbol grounding
Harnad, Stevan
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Harnad, Stevan
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Harnad, Stevan
(2010)
Eliminating the “concept” concept.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33 (2/3).
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Abstract
Machery 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: 2010
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Commentary On: Machery [Book Review, BBS 33(2/3), 2010]
Keywords:
concepts, categories, prototypes, symbol grounding
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/271346
ISSN: 0140-525X
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