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Western philosophy has long been divided between empiricists, who argue that human understanding has its basis in experience, and rationalists, who argue that reason is the source of knowledge. A central issue in the debate is the nature of concepts, the internal representations we use to think about the world. The traditional empiricist thesis that concepts are built up from sensory input has fallen out of favor. Mainstream cognitive science tends to echo the rationalist tradition, with its emphasis on innateness. In Furnishing the Mind, Jesse Prinz attempts to swing the pendulum back toward empiricism. Prinz provides a critical survey of leading theories of concepts, including imagism, definitionism, prototype theory, exemplar theory, the theory theory, and informational atomism. He sets forth a new defense of concept empiricism that draws on philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology and introduces a new version of concept empiricism called proxytype theory. He also provides accounts of abstract concepts, intentionality, narrow content, and concept combination. In an extended discussion of innateness, he covers Noam Chomsky's arguments for the innateness of grammar, developmental psychologists' arguments for innate cognitive domains, and Jerry Fodor's argument for radical concept nativism.
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: Philosophy |
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: Jesse J. Prinz |
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: MIT Press |
Release |
: 2004-08-20 |
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: 372 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262264110 |
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: Education |
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: National Educational Association (U.S.) |
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: |
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: 1886 |
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: 558 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: PURD:32754076533326 |
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The study of concepts has advanced dramatically in recent years, with exciting new findings and theoretical developments. Core concepts have been investigated in greater depth and new lines of inquiry have blossomed, with researchers from an ever broader range of disciplines making important contributions. In this volume, leading philosophers and cognitive scientists offer original essays that present the state-of-the-art in the study of concepts. These essays, all commissioned for this book, do not merely present the usual surveys and overviews; rather, they offer the latest work on concepts by a diverse group of theorists as well as discussions of the ideas that should guide research over the next decade.
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: Philosophy |
Author |
: Eric Margolis |
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: MIT Press |
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: 2015-05-08 |
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: 741 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262028639 |
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The Centered Mind offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousness. Peter Carruthers argues that conscious thought is always sensory-based, relying on the resources of the working-memory system. This system has been much studied by cognitive scientists. It enables sensory images to be sustained and manipulated through attentional signals directed at midlevel sensory areas of the brain. When abstract conceptual representations are bound into these images, we consciously experience ourselves as making judgments or arriving at decisions. Thus one might hear oneself as judging, in inner speech, that it is time to go home, for example. However, our amodal (non-sensory) propositional attitudes are never actually among the contents of this stream of conscious reflection. Our beliefs, goals, and decisions are only ever active in the background of consciousness, working behind the scenes to select the sensory-based imagery that occurs in working memory. They are never themselves conscious. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the scientific literature on working memory and related topics, Carruthers builds an argument that challenges the central assumptions of many philosophers. In addition to arguing that non-sensory propositional attitudes are never conscious, he also shows that they are never under direct intentional control. Written with his usual clarity and directness, The Centered Mind will be essential reading for all philosophers and cognitive scientists interested in the nature of human thought processes.
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: Philosophy |
Author |
: Peter Carruthers |
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: OUP Oxford |
Release |
: 2015-07-23 |
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: 305 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780191058998 |
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This book is a collection of essays exploring some classical dimensions of mind both from the perspective of an empirically-informed philosophy and from the point of view of a philosophically-informed psychology. The chapters reflect the different forms of interaction in an effort to clarify issues and debates concerning some traditional cognitive capacities. The result is a philosophically and scientifically up-to-date collection of "cartographies of the mind".
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: Philosophy |
Author |
: Massimo Marraffa |
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: Springer Science & Business Media |
Release |
: 2007-06-04 |
File |
: 374 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781402054440 |
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: Thomas Reid |
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: |
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: 1821 |
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: 334 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: BL:A0024169499 |
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: Philosophy |
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: Thomas Reid |
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: |
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: 1823 |
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: 284 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: IBSC:SC000016023 |
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The volume takes on the much-needed task of describing and explaining the nature of the relations and interactions between mind, language and action in defining mentality. Papers by renowned philosophers unravel what is increasingly acknowledged to be the enacted nature of the mind, memory and language-acquisition, whilst also calling attention to Wittgenstein's contribution. The volume offers unprecedented insight, clarity, scope, and currency.
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: Philosophy |
Author |
: Danièle Moyal-Sharrock |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Release |
: 2015-03-10 |
File |
: 622 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783110378795 |
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Genre |
: Common sense |
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: Thomas Reid |
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: |
Release |
: 1821 |
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: 332 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: NLS:B900060220 |
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: |
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: Thomas Reid |
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: |
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: 1823 |
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: 320 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: OXFORD:600076382 |