Nature of Concepts

Evolution, Structure and Representation

AvPhilip Van Loocke

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Del i serien Frontiers of Cognitive Science

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Beskrivning

The Nature of Concepts examines a central issue for all the main disciplines in cognitive science: how the human mind creates and passes on to other human minds a concept. An excellent cross-disciplinary collection with contributors including Steven Pinker, Andy Clarke and Henry Plotkin.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-12-02
Mått:156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt:385 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Frontiers of Cognitive Science
Antal sidor:266
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138884366

Utforska kategorier

Kognitiv psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

Philip Van Loocke is a Senior Research Associate of the Fund for Scientific Research (Flanders/Belgium) and Visiting Professor in Epistemology at the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: the structure and representation of concepts 1 The nature of human concepts: evidence from an unusual source 2The modularity of language: some empirical considerations 3 The perspective of situated and self-organizing cognition in cognitive psychology 4 Complex systems methods in cognitive systems and there presentation of environmental information 5 Some psychological mechanisms of culture 6 Neural expectations: a possible evolutionary path from manual skills to language 7 Is “mind” a scientific kind? 8 Evolution and self-evidence 9 The development of scientific concepts and their embodiment in the representational activities of cognitive systems: neural representation spaces, theory spaces, and paradigmatic shifts 10 The concept of disease: structure and change