The Nature of Concepts

Evolution, Structure and Representation
Herausgeber: Loocke, Philip van

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780415179638
• ISBN-10: 0415179637
• Artikelnr.: 21949801

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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