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Preface | p. xi |
Introduction: Defining the Question | p. 1 |
What are concepts? | p. 2 |
Philosophers versus psychologists | p. 10 |
My theses | p. 13 |
Some disclaimers | p. 14 |
The Lockean Theory | p. 17 |
The composition theory | p. 19 |
Abstraction-as- subtraction | p. 24 |
Abstraction-as-representation | p. 28 |
Concepts as the building blocks of judgments | p. 31 |
Contemporary Lockeans | p. 33 |
A recent version of the composition theory: Rosch | p. 33 |
A contemporary version of abstraction-as-subtraction:Mandler | p. 36 |
A contemporary version of abstraction-as-representation:Prinz | p. 40 |
A collection of problems | p. 45 |
Appendix: Locke as trope theorist | p. 46 |
The Kantian Theory | p. 50 |
Kant's own theory | p. 50 |
Evidence for this interpretation | p. 53 |
Why we cannot be Kantians today | p. 56 |
Are concepts embedded in perception? | p. 59 |
A Kantian in contemporary psychology: Barsalou | p. 65 |
A Kantian in contemporary philosophy: McDowell | p. 70 |
McDowell's Kant interpretation | p. 71 |
McDowell on the justification of belief through perception | p. 75 |
The lessons | p. 79 |
Appendix: Analysis as the representation of synthesis | p. 79 |
Regions of Similarity Space | p. 86 |
Churchland and Gardenfors | p. 89 |
Is the theory inevitable? | p. 93 |
An empirical challenge | p. 96 |
Why judgments cannot be built from regions | p. 99 |
Learning about individuals | p. 100 |
Learning about kinds | p. 102 |
Modal distinctions | p. 105 |
Learning through language | p. 106 |
Complex logical structures | p. 107 |
Thought without boundaries | p. 109 |
The Sellarsian Theory | p. 112 |
Sellars's functionalism | p. 113 |
The myth of Jones | p. 122 |
Perception | p. 130 |
Right-wing Sellarsianism: Fodor | p. 134 |
Left-wing Sellarsianism: Brandom | p. 138 |
Imagistic Cognition | p. 145 |
What are mental images? | p. 147 |
Feats of imagination | p. 149 |
The analysis of imagistic cognition | p. 151 |
Perceptual similarity space | p. 151 |
Object tracking | p. 155 |
Acquired dimensions of perceptual similarity space | p. 157 |
Imagistic causation | p. 161 |
Animals and babies | p. 163 |
A brief review of some of the challenges | p. 164 |
Quinn's studies of human infants | p. 171 |
Savage-Rumbaugh's studies of chimpanzees | p. 174 |
Similarity without Concepts | p. 184 |
Some specious objections | p. 185 |
Similarity and commonality | p. 187 |
Imagistic representation | p. 192 |
Mere misperception | p. 194 |
Persistent illusions | p. 200 |
The correspondence between dimensions | p. 203 |
Contra Tversky | p. 206 |
The empirical results | p. 207 |
The contrast model | p. 209 |
Gleitman's better explanation | p. 211 |
The remaining results | p. 215 |
Cooperation by Means of Words | p. 217 |
The paradigm case | p. 221 |
Some further assumptions | p. 224 |
Goals | p. 224 |
Varieties of imagistic representations | p. 225 |
The composition of similarities | p. 227 |
Counting demonstratives | p. 228 |
Production and acceptance of literals | p. 231 |
Production of atomic sentences | p. 232 |
Acceptance of atomic sentences | p. 237 |
Negations of atomic sentences | p. 239 |
The activation of speech dispositions | p. 242 |
An interlocutor's take on the context | p. 243 |
Disjunctions | p. 245 |
General negation | p. 248 |
Psychologic | p. 249 |
Conditionals | p. 250 |
Universal quantifiers | p. 253 |
Thinking in Language | p. 256 |
What is inner speech? | p. 257 |
Conceptual thoughts and verbal imagery | p. 257 |
Consciousness of verbal imagery | p. 259 |
Sentences in thought | p. 260 |
Beliefs versus occurrent thoughts | p. 263 |
Easy answers to cheap shots | p. 265 |
The utility of intrapersonal discourse | p. 273 |
Semantic norms | p. 277 |
References | p. 285 |
Index | p. 299 |
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