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The conceptual mind: new directions in the study of concepts
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MIT Press
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[2015]
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English
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I. Concepts and animals. 1. Conceptual learning by miniature brains / Aurore Avarguès-Weber and Martin Giurfa ; 2. Convergent cognitive evolution across animal taxa : comparisons of chimpanzees, corvids, and elephants / Joshua M. Plotnik and Nicola S. Clayton ; 3. The evolution of concepts about agents : or, what do animals recognize when they recognize an individual? / Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney
II. Concepts and the brain. 4. Missed connections : a connectivity-constrained account of the representation and organization of object concepts / Bradford Z. Mahon ; 5. Concept nativism and neural plasticity / Stephen Laurence and Eric Margolis
III. Concepts and evolution. 6. The evolution of conceptual design / H. Clark Barrett ; 7. How natural selection shapes conceptual structure : human intuitions and concepts of ownership / Pascal Boyer
IV. Concepts and perception. 8. Burge on perception / Jerry A. Fodor ; 9. Observational concepts / Daniel A. Weiskopf
V. Concepts and language. 10. What's in a concept? Analog versus parametric concepts in LCCM theory / Vyvyan Evans ; 11. Where are the concepts? What words can and can't reveal? / Barbara C. Malt, Silvia P. Gennari, Mutsumi Imai, Eef Ameel, Noburo Saji, and Asifa Majid ; 12. The representation of events in language and cognition / Anna Papafragou
VI. Concepts across cultures. 13. Relations : language, epistemologies, categories, and concepts / Douglas Medin, bethany ojalehto, Sandra Waxman, and Megan Bang ; 14. Innate conceptual primitives manifested in the languages of the world and in infant cognition / Anna Wierzbicka
VII. Concept acquisition and conceptual change. 15. Why theories of concepts should not ignore the problem of acquisition / Susan Carey ; 16. Conceptual innovation on the frontiers of science / Nancy J. Nersessian
VIII. Concepts and normativity. 17. Does the infant possess a moral concept? / J. Kiley Hamlin ; 18. Normative concepts / Charles W. Kalish
IX. Concepts in context. 19. All concepts are ad hoc concepts / Daniel Casasanto and Gary Lupyan ; 20. By default : concepts are accessed in a context-independent manner / Edouard Machery
X. Concepts and conceptual individuation 21. Logical concepts and associative characterizations / Elisabeth Camp ; 22. Concepts in a probabilistic language of thought / Noah D. Goodman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, and Tobias Gerstenberg ; 23. Concepts in the semantic triangle / James A. Hampton ; 24. Grounding concepts / Frank C. Keil and Jonathan F. Kominsky.
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