Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
What is included with this book?
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Concepts and Cognitive Science | p. 3 |
Origins of the Contemporary Study of Concepts | p. 83 |
The Classical Theory | p. 85 |
Euthyphro | p. 87 |
The Process of Concept Attainment | p. 101 |
On the General Character of Semantic Theory | p. 125 |
Philosophical Skepticism about the Classical Theory | p. 151 |
Two Dogmas of Empiricism | p. 153 |
Philosophical Investigations, sections 65-78 | p. 171 |
The Probabilistic Turn: Stereotypes, Prototypes, Exemplars | p. 175 |
Is Semantics Possible? | p. 177 |
Principles of Categorization | p. 189 |
The Exemplar View | p. 207 |
Critical Reactions to the Probabilistic Turn | p. 223 |
What Some Concepts Might Not Be | p. 225 |
On the Adequacy of Prototype Theory as a Theory of Concepts | p. 261 |
Concepts and Stereotypes | p. 279 |
Current Theories and Research | p. 301 |
Neoclassical Theories | p. 303 |
What Is a Concept, That a Person May Grasp It? | p. 305 |
Precis of A Study of Concepts | p. 335 |
Resisting Primitive Compulsions | p. 339 |
Can Possession Conditions Individuate Concepts? | p. 345 |
Rethinking Prototypes | p. 353 |
Combining Prototypes: A Selective Modification Model | p. 355 |
Cognitive Models and Prototype Theory | p. 391 |
The Theory-Theory | p. 423 |
The Role of Theories in Conceptual Coherence | p. 425 |
Knowledge Acquisition: Enrichment or Conceptual Change? | p. 459 |
Conceptual Atomism | p. 489 |
Against Definitions | p. 491 |
Information and Representation | p. 513 |
A Common Structure for Concepts of Individuals, Stuffs and Real Kinds: More Mama, More Milk, and More Mouse | p. 525 |
How to Acquire a Concept | p. 549 |
Concept Possession in Infants and Children | p. 569 |
The Object Concept Revisited: New Directions in the Investigation of Infants' Physical Knowledge | p. 571 |
Insides and Essences: Early Understandings of the Non-Obvious | p. 613 |
Index | p. 639 |
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.