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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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
4 Complex systems methods in cognitive systems and the representation of environmental information.Philip Van Loocke
1 The nature of human concepts.  (pages 8)Steven Pinker & Alan Prince
2 The modularity of language.  (pages 52)Yosef Grodzinsky
Some Psychological Mechanisms of Culture.  (pages 115--27)Henri Plotkin
7. Is “mind” a scientific kind?  (pages 155)Andy Clark
The perspective of situated and self-organizing cognition in cognitive psychology.  (pages 163-189)Wolfgang Tschacher & Christian Scheier
8 Evolution and self-evidence.  (pages 168)William S. Robinson
10 The concept of disease.  (pages 215)Paul Thagard

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