The nature of concepts : evolution, structure and representation / edited by Philip Van Loocke.
Material type: TextSeries: Frontiers of cognitive science ; 2.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999Description: viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415179637
- 9780415179638
- 153.23
- BF441. N37 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the structure and representation of concepts -- 1. The nature of human concepts: evidence from an unusual source -- 2. The 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 the representation 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 -- Author index -- Subject index.
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