"This volume has all the great papers on concepts, with invaluable
commentary by the editors. The profound and fascinating essays in the
collection are indispensable for anyone interested in the human
mind."
-- Steven Pinker, Professor and Director, Center for
Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT, and author of The Language
Instinct and How the Mind Works
Concepts: Core Readings traces the develoment of one
of the most active areas of investigation in cognitive science. This
comprehensive volume brings together the essential background readings
from philosophy, psychology, and linguistics, while providing a broad
sampling of contemporary research. The first part of the book centers
around the fall of the Classical Theory of Concepts in the face of
attacks by W. V. O. Quine, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Eleanor Rosch, and
others, emphasizing the emergence and development of the Prototype
Theory and the controversies it spurred. The second part surveys a
broad range of contemporary theories -- Neoclassical Theories, the
Prototype Theory, the Theory-Theory, and Conceptual Atomism.
Readings by: Sharon Armstrong, George Austin, Ren¿e
Baillargeon, Jerome Bruner, Susan Carey, Jerry Fodor, Merrill Garrett,
Susan Gelman, Henry Gleitman, Lila Gleitman, Jacqueline Goodnow, Ray
Jackendoff, Jerrold Katz, Margaret Keane, George Lakoff, Eric
Margolis, Douglas Medin, Ruth Millikan, Gregory Murphy, Daniel
Osherson, C. H. Parkes, Christopher Peacocke, Plato, Hilary Putnam, W.
V. O. Quine, Georges Rey, Lance Rips, Eleanor Rosch, Edward Smith,
E. C. T. Walker, Henry Wellman, Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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