The Nature of Concepts (eBook, PDF)

Evolution, Structure and Representation
Redaktion: Loocke, Philip van

• Format: PDF

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134681495
• Artikelnr.: 38248897

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