The nature of concepts: evolution, structure, and representation

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New York: Routledge (1999)
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The Nature of Concepts examines a central issue for all the main disciplines in cognitive science: how the human mind creates and passes on to other human minds a concept. An excellent cross-disciplinary collection with contributors including Steven Pinker, Andy Clarke and Henry Plotkin.

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BF443.N38 1999

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0415179637

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6 Neural expectations.Michael A. Arbib & Giacomo Rizzolatti
139-43, 148, 186; co-author of Chapter 6; see also Grafton, ST et al.; Jeannerod, M. et al. Armstrong, DF: et al. 128 Armstrong, SL: et al 10-11, 21, 41-2. [REVIEW]M. Aronoff, R. W. Ashby, H. Atmanspacher, S. Avrutin, B. Baars, J. Balling, J. Balogh, A. Bandura, R. G. Barker & J. Barkow
7 Is “mind” a scientific kind?Andy Clark
2 The modularity of language.Yosef Grodzinsky
1 The nature of human concepts.Steven Pinker & Alan Prince
Some Psychological Mechanisms of Culture.Henri Plotkin
8 Evolution and self-evidence.William S. Robinson
10 The concept of disease.Paul Thagard
The perspective of situated and self-organizing cognition in cognitive psychology.Wolfgang Tschacher & Christian Scheier
4 Complex systems methods in cognitive systems and the representation of environmental information.Philip Van Loocke

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