The nature of concepts : evolution, structure and representation /
edited by Philip Van Loocke.
- viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Routledge frontiers of cognitive science ; 2. .
- Frontiers of cognitive science ; 2. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the structure and representation of concepts -- The nature of human concepts: evidence from an unusual source -- The modularity of language: some empirical considerations -- The perspective of situated and self-organizing cognition in cognitive psychology -- Complex systems methods in cognitive systems and the representation of environmental information -- Some psychological mechanisms of culture -- Neural expectations: a possible evolutionary path from manual skills to language -- Is "mind" a scientific kind? -- Evolution and self-evidence -- The development of scientific concepts and their embodiment in the representational activities of cognitive systems: neural representation spaces, theory spaces, and paradigmatic shifts -- The concept of disease: structure and change -- Author index -- Subject index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Concepts Thought and thinking Knowledge, Theory of