Results for 'concepts'

966 found
Order:
  1.  37
    Acting on gaps? John Searle's conception of free will.John Searle’S. Conception - 2010 - In Jan G. Michel, Dirk Franken & Attila Karakus (eds.), John R. Searle: Thinking about the Real World. Frankfurt: ontos/de Gruyter. pp. 103.
  2. Feature list representations of categories.Concepts Frames & Lawrence W. Barsalou - 1992 - In Adrienne Lehrer & Eva Feder Kittay (eds.), Frames, fields, and contrasts: new essays in semantic and lexical organization. Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates. pp. 21.
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   9 citations  
  3. Reviews and evaluations of articles.Of Entitled'concept - 1986 - Ultimate Reality and Meaning 9.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  4. Sketch of a partial simulation of the concept of meaning in an automaton Fernand Vandamme.Concept of Meaning in An Automaton - 1966 - Logique Et Analyse 33:372.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  5. Conceptual problems.Concept Attainment - 1968 - In T. Dixon & Deryck Horton (eds.), Verbal Behavior and General Behavior Theory. Prentice-Hall. pp. 230.
  6. Henry Flynt.Concept Art - 1989 - In Richard Kostelanetz (ed.), Esthetics contemporary. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books. pp. 429.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  7. Nathan W. Harter.From Simmel'S. Conception - 1999 - In TM Powers & P. Kamolnick (ed.), From Kant to Weber: Freedom and Culture in Classical German Social Theory.
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  8. Peter Kirschenmann.Concepts Of Randomness - 1973 - In Mario Bunge (ed.), Exact philosophy; problems, tools, and goals. Boston,: D. Reidel. pp. 129.
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  9. Concepts: Core Readings.Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence (eds.) - 1999 - MIT Press.
    Concepts: Core Readings traces the develoment of one of the most active areas of investigation in cognitive science. This comprehensive volume brings together the essential background readings on concepts from philosophy, psychology, and linguistics, while providing a broad sampling of contemporary research. The first part of the book centers around the fall of the Classical Theory of Concepts in the face of attacks by W.V.O. Quine, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Eleanor Rosch, and others, emphasizing the emergence and development of (...)
  10. Mathematical concepts and definitions.Jamie Tappenden - 2008 - In Paolo Mancosu (ed.), The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. pp. 256--275.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   24 citations  
  11. Concepts of Science.Peter Achinstein - 1974 - Philosophy 49 (187):106-108.
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   70 citations  
  12. Against hybrid theories of concepts.Edouard Machery & Selja Säppälä - unknown
    Psychologists of concepts’ traditional assumption that there are many properties common to all concepts has been subject to devastating critiques in psychology and in the philosophy of psychology. However, it is currently unclear what approach to concepts is best suited to replace this traditional assumption. In this article, we compare two competing approaches, the Heterogeneity Hypothesis and the hybrid theories of concepts, and we present an empirical argument that tentatively supports the former over the latter.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   33 citations  
  13. Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong.Kent Bach - 2000 - Philosophical Review 109 (4):627.
    As the dust jacket proclaims, “this is surely Fodor’s most irritating book in years …. It should exasperate philosophers, linguists, cognitive psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists alike.” Yes, Fodor is an equal-opportunity annoyer. He sees no job for conceptual analysts, no hope for lexical semanticists, and no need for prototype theorists. When it comes to shedding light on concepts, these luminaries have delivered nothing but moonshine. Fodor aims to remedy things, and not just with snake oil. He serves up plenty (...)
    Direct download (10 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   39 citations  
  14. The concepts of health and disease.H. Tristram Engelhardt - 1975 - In H. Tristram Engelhardt & Stuart F. Spicker (eds.), Evaluation and explanation in the biomedical sciences. Reidel. pp. 125-141.
  15.  74
    The representation of object concepts in the brain.Alex Martin - 2007
    Evidence from functional neuroimaging of the human brain indicates that information about salient properties of an object¿such as what it looks like, how it moves, and how it is used¿is stored in sensory and motor systems active when that information was acquired. As a result, object concepts belonging to different categories like animals and tools are represented in partially distinct, sensory- and motor property-based neural networks. This suggests that object concepts are not explicitly represented, but rather emerge from (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   108 citations  
  16. The plurality of concepts.Daniel Aaron Weiskopf - 2009 - Synthese 169 (1):145-173.
    Traditionally, theories of concepts in psychology assume that concepts are a single, uniform kind of mental representation. But no single kind of representation can explain all of the empirical data for which concepts are responsible. I argue that the assumption that concepts are uniformly the same kind of mental structure is responsible for these theories’ shortcomings, and outline a pluralist theory of concepts that rejects this assumption. On pluralism, concepts should be thought of as (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   104 citations  
  17. Concepts and Cognitive Science.Stephen Laurence & Eric Margolis - 1999 - In Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence (eds.), Concepts: Core Readings. MIT Press. pp. 3-81.
    Given the fundamental role that concepts play in theories of cognition, philosophers and cognitive scientists have a common interest in concepts. Nonetheless, there is a great deal of controversy regarding what kinds of things concepts are, how they are structured, and how they are acquired. This chapter offers a detailed high-level overview and critical evaluation of the main theories of concepts and their motivations. Taking into account the various challenges that each theory faces, the chapter also (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   257 citations  
  18.  7
    Phenomenal concepts and the explanatory gap.David J. Chalmers - 2006 - In Torin Alter & Sven Walter (eds.), Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge: New Essays on Consciousness and Physicalism. New York, US: Oxford University Press.
    Confronted with the apparent explanatory gap between physical processes and consciousness, there are many possible reactions. Some deny that any explanatory gap exists at all. Some hold that there is an explanatory gap for now, but that it will eventually be closed. Some hold that the explanatory gap corresponds to an ontological gap in nature.
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   6 citations  
  19. Concepts of health and disease.Chirstopher Boorse - 2011 - In Fred Gifford (ed.), Philosophy of Medicine. Boston: Elsevier.
  20.  22
    D ewey carefully distinguishes metaphysical existence from logical essences. This is an immensely important distinction for under-standing Dewey's constructivism, because, while existence is given, es.Reflex Arc Concept To Social - 2009 - In Larry A. Hickman, Stefan Neubert & Kersten Reich (eds.), John Dewey between pragmatism and constructivism. New York: Fordham University Press.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  21. Normativity and Concepts.Hannah Ginsborg - 2018 - In Daniel Star (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity. New York, NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press. pp. 989-1014.
    A number of philosophers, including Kant, Kripke, Boghossian, Gibbard and Brandom, can be read as endorsing the view that concepts are normative. I distinguish two versions of that view: a strong, non-naturalistic version which identifies concepts with norms or rules (Kant, Kripke), and a weaker version, compatible with naturalism, on which the normativity of concepts amounts only to their application’s being governed by norms or rules (Boghossian, Gibbard, Brandom). I consider a problem for the strong version: grasp (...)
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   11 citations  
  22.  39
    Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, Politics.Paul Patton - 2010 - Stanford University Press.
    These essays provide important interpretations and analyze critical developments of the political philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. They situate his thought in the contemporary intellectual landscape by comparing him with contemporaries such as Derrida, Rorty, and Rawls and show how elements of his philosophy may be usefully applied to key contemporary issues including colonization and decolonization, the nature of liberal democracy, and the concepts and critical utopian aspirations of political philosophy. Patton discusses Deleuze's notion of philosophy as the creation of (...)
  23.  9
    Three concepts of time.Kenneth George Denbigh - 1981 - New York: Springer Verlag.
  24. Het spel van het naamloze.Naar Een Concept van Joseph Kosuth - 1989 - In Dayton Z. Phillips & Peter G. Winch (eds.), Wittgenstein. Blackwell.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  25. Concepts without words.Christopher Peacocke - 1997 - In Richard G. Heck (ed.), Language, Thought, and Logic: Essays in Honour of Michael Dummett. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1--33.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   17 citations  
  26.  23
    Concepts of Originality in the Natural Science, Medical, and Engineering Disciplines: An Analysis of Research Proposals.Eva Barlösius - 2019 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 44 (6):915-937.
    Science is fundamentally devoted to generating original knowledge, and therefore concepts of scientific originality are keys to understanding its very essence. Scientific originality has long been thought of as discovery, but new studies of the humanities and social sciences have shown that other, discipline-specific concepts of originality are used in these fields of study. Does this finding also hold for disciplines in the natural science, medicine, and engineering? Are concepts of originality scientifically grounded or do they instead (...)
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  27. Splitting concepts.Gualtiero Piccinini & Sam Scott - 2006 - Philosophy of Science 73 (4):390-409.
    A common presupposition in the concepts literature is that concepts constitute a sin- gular natural kind. If, on the contrary, concepts split into more than one kind, this literature needs to be recast in terms of other kinds of mental representation. We offer two new arguments that concepts, in fact, divide into different kinds: (a) concepts split because different kinds of mental representation, processed independently, must be posited to explain different sets of relevant phenomena; (b) (...)
    Direct download (9 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   52 citations  
  28.  23
    Categories and Concepts: Theoretical Views and Inductive Data Analysis.Iven van Mechelen, James Hampton, Ryszard S. Michalski & Peter Theuns (eds.) - 1993 - Academic Press.
    A book aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduates in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, linguistics, applied mathematics and data analysis.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   10 citations  
  29.  9
    Concepts, Kinds and Cognitive Development.Frank C. Keil - 1989 - MIT Press.
    In Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development, Frank C. Keil provides a coherent account of how concepts and word meanings develop in children, adding to our understanding of the representational nature of concepts and word meanings at all ages. Keil argues that it is impossible to adequately understand the nature of conceptual representation without also considering the issue of learning. Weaving together issues in cognitive development, philosophy, and cognitive psychology, he reconciles numerous theories, backed by empirical evidence from (...)
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   250 citations  
  30. What are Thick Concepts?Matti Eklund - 2011 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 41 (1):25-49.
    Many theorists hold that there is, among value concepts, a fundamental distinction between thin ones and thick ones. Among thin ones are concepts like good and right. Among concepts that have been regarded as thick are discretion, caution, enterprise, industry, assiduity, frugality, economy, good sense, prudence, discernment, treachery, promise, brutality, courage, coward, lie, gratitude, lewd, perverted, rude, glorious, graceful, exploited, and, of course, many others. Roughly speaking, thick concepts are value concepts with significant descriptive content. (...)
    Direct download (8 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   33 citations  
  31. (1 other version)Thick Concepts.Debbie Roberts - 2013 - Philosophy Compass 8 (8):677-688.
    In ethics, aesthetics and increasingly in epistemology, a distinction is drawn between thick and thin evaluative concepts. A common characterisation of the distinction is that thin concepts have only evaluative content, whereas thick concepts combine evaluative and descriptive content. Because of this combination, it is again commonly thought that thick concepts have various distinctive powers including the power to undermine the distinction between fact and value. This paper discusses the accuracy of this view of the thick (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   42 citations  
  32.  98
    Can Information Concepts have Physical Content?Javier Anta - 2023 - Perspectives on Science 31 (2):207-232.
    In this paper, I analyze the physical content of the main information concepts in the history of physics of the last seven decades. I argue that this physical character should be evaluated not by appealing to analytical-linguistic confusion (Timpson 2013) or to the usefulness of its applicability (Lombardi et al. 2016), but properly from its capacity to allow us to acquire significant knowledge about the physical world. After systematically employing this epistemic criterion of physical significance I will conclude by (...)
    Direct download (7 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  33.  64
    Evolving Concepts of Functional Localization.Joseph B. McCaffrey - 2023 - Philosophy Compass 18 (5):e12914.
    Functional localization is a central aim of cognitive neuroscience. But the nature and extent of functional localization in the human brain have been subjects of fierce theoretical debate since the 19th Century. In this essay, I first examine how concepts of functional localization have changed over time. I then analyze contemporary challenges to functional localization drawing from research on neural reuse, neural degeneracy, and the context-dependence of neural functions. I explore the consequences of these challenges for topics in philosophy (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  34. Concepts.Author unknown - unknown - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  35. Which Concepts Should We Use?: Metalinguistic Negotiations and The Methodology of Philosophy.David Plunkett - 2015 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 58 (7-8):828-874.
    This paper is about philosophical disputes where the literal content of what speakers communicate concerns such object-level issues as ground, supervenience, or real definition. It is tempting to think that such disputes straightforwardly express disagreements about these topics. In contrast to this, I suggest that, in many such cases, the disagreement that is expressed is actually one about which concepts should be employed. I make this case as follows. First, I look at non-philosophical, everyday disputes where a speaker employs (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   129 citations  
  36.  6
    How does complexity develop?Assisted Conception Unit - 2003 - In J. B. Nation (ed.), Formal descriptions of developing systems. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 153.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  37. Causal Concepts in Biology: How Pathways Differ from Mechanisms and Why It Matters.Lauren N. Ross - 2021 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 72 (1):131-158.
    In the last two decades few topics in philosophy of science have received as much attention as mechanistic explanation. A significant motivation for these accounts is that scientists frequently use the term “mechanism” in their explanations of biological phenomena. While scientists appeal to a variety of causal concepts in their explanations, many philosophers argue or assume that all of these concepts are well understood with the single notion of mechanism. This reveals a significant problem with mainstream mechanistic accounts– (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   26 citations  
  38.  70
    Two Concepts of Group Privacy.Michele Loi & Markus Christen - 2020 - Philosophy and Technology 33 (2):207-224.
    Luciano Floridi was not the first to discuss the idea of group privacy, but he was perhaps the first to discuss it in relation to the insights derived from big data analytics. He has argued that it is important to investigate the possibility that groups have rights to privacy that are not reducible to the privacy of individuals forming such groups. In this paper, we introduce a distinction between two concepts of group privacy. The first, the “what happens in (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   7 citations  
  39. Two concepts of affrmative action.Steven M. Cahn - 2009 - In Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  40.  8
    Categories, concepts, or predicaments?Steven Collins - 1985 - In Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins & Steven Lukes (eds.), The Category of the person: anthropology, philosophy, history. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 46--82.
  41. Abilities, concepts, and externalism.Ernest Sosa - 1995 - In Pascal Engel (ed.), Mental causation. Oxford University Press.
  42. Concepts are beliefs about essences.Ulrike Haas-Spohn & Wolfgang Spohn - 2001 - In R. Stuhlmann-Laeisz, Albert Newen & Ulrich Nortmann (eds.), Proceedings of an International Symposium. Stanford, CSLI Publications.
    Putnam (1975) and Burge (1979) have made a convincing case that neither mea- nings nor beliefs are in the head. Most philosophers, it seems, have accepted their argument. Putnam explained that a subject.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   9 citations  
  43. Concepts of science.Peter Achinstein - 1968 - Baltimore,: Johns Hopkins University Press.
    In this systematic study, Professor Achinstein analyzes such concepts as definitions, theories, and models, and contrasts his view with currently held positions that he finds inadequate.
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   69 citations  
  44. Contextualizing concepts using a mathematical generalization of the quantum formalism.Liane Gabora & Diederik Aerts - 2002 - Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 14 (4):327-358.
    We outline the rationale and preliminary results of using the State Context Property (SCOP) formalism, originally developed as a generalization of quantum mechanics, to describe the contextual manner in which concepts are evoked, used, and combined to generate meaning. The quantum formalism was developed to cope with problems arising in the description of (1) the measurement process, and (2) the generation of new states with new properties when particles become entangled. Similar problems arising with concepts motivated the formal (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   46 citations  
  45. by Bent Schultzer.Asa Relativistic & Moral Conception - 1963 - In Gunnar Aspelin (ed.), Philosophical essays. Lund,: CWK Gleerup. pp. 201.
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  46.  6
    Les concepts de la raison et les lois de l'univers.Eugene De Roberty - 1912 - Paris,: F. Alcan.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  47.  17
    Theoretical concepts and hypothetico-inductive inference.Ilkka Niiniluoto - 1973 - Boston,: D. Reidel Pub. Co.. Edited by Raimo Tuomela.
    Conceptual change and its connection to the development of new seien tific theories has reeently beeome an intensively discussed topic in philo sophieal literature. Even if the inductive aspects related to conceptual change have already been discussed to some extent, there has so far existed no systematic treatment of inductive change due to conceptual enrichment. This is what we attempt to accomplish in this work, al though most of our technical results are restricted to the framework of monadic languages. We (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   28 citations  
  48. The concepts of apriori and history in the early writings of Cohen, Hermann.Luisa Bertolini - 1986 - Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 41 (2):265-281.
  49. Three Concepts of Actual Causation.Enno Fischer - 2024 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 75 (1):77-98.
    I argue that we need to distinguish between three concepts of actual causation: total, path-changing, and contributing actual causation. I provide two lines of argument in support of this account. First, I address three thought experiments that have been troublesome for unified accounts of actual causation, and I show that my account provides a better explanation of corresponding causal intuitions. Second, I provide a functional argument: if we assume that a key purpose of causal concepts is to guide (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  50. Phenomenal Concepts.Kati Balog - 2007 - In Brian McLaughlin, Ansgar Beckermann & Sven Walter (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
    This article is about the special, subjective concepts we apply to experience, called “phenomenal concepts”. They are of special interest in a number of ways. First, they refer to phenomenal experiences, and the qualitative character of those experiences whose metaphysical status is hotly debated. Conscious experience strike many philosophers as philosophically problematic and difficult to accommodate within a physicalistic metaphysics. Second, PCs are widely thought to be special and unique among concepts. The sense that there is something (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   34 citations  
1 — 50 / 966