Susan Carey (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, Harv

The Origin of Concepts

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Produktbeschreibung

New in paperback-- A transformative book on the way we think about the nature of concepts and the relations between language and thought.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Series in Cognitive Development
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 924g
• ISBN-13: 9780199838806
• ISBN-10: 0199838801
• Artikelnr.: 35709222

Autorenporträt

Susan Carey is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. She is a renowned expert on conceptual development and is known for introducing the concept of fast mapping, whereby children learn the meanings of words after a single exposure, and for integrating work on conceptual change in the history of science with work on conceptual change in childhood.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Some Preliminaries
2. The Initial Representational Repertoire: The Empiricist Picture
3. Core Object Cognition
4. Core Cognition: Number
5. Core Cognition: Agency
6. Representations of Cause
7. Language and Core Cognition
8. Beyond Core Cognition: Natural Number
9. Beyond the Numeral List Representation of Integers
10. Beyond Core Object Cognition
11. The Process of Conceptual Change
12. Conclusion I: The Origins of Concepts
13. Conclusion II: Implications for a Theory of Concepts
References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects