Concepts as correlates of lexical labels: a cognitivist perspective
The study of language becomes particularly attractive when it is not practised as an isolated descriptive enterprise, but when it has wide-ranging implications for the study of the human mind. Such is the spirit of this book. While <I>categorisation </I>may be the single most basic cognitive process in organisms, and as an area of inquiry, it is fundamental to Cognitive Science as a whole, at the other end of the spectrum, high-level cognition is organised and permeated by language, giving …
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- Full title :Concepts as correlates of lexical labels : a cognitivist perspective / Sławomir Wacewicz.
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The study of language becomes particularly attractive when it is not practised as an isolated descriptive enterprise, but when it has wide-ranging implications for the study of the human mind. Such is the spirit of this book. While <I>categorisation </I>may be the single most basic cognitive process in organisms, and as an area of inquiry, it is fundamental to Cognitive Science as a whole, at the other end of the spectrum, high-level cognition is organised and permeated by language, giving rise to categories that count and function as <I>concepts</I>. Working from considering the philo.
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- Publication Date:2015
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- Publisher(s):Peter Lang
- Place of Publication:Frankfurt am Main
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015
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- Description:1 online resource (1 recurso electrónico.)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783653052879, 3653052874
- oclc:ocn984771070
- Dewey Decimal:401/.43
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Internalistic Perspective On Language In Cognitive Science; Preliminary remarks; 1."History and profile of Cognitive Science; 1.1"Introduction; 1.2"Cognitive Science: definitions and basic assumptions; 1.3"Basic tenets of Cognitive Science; 1.3.1"Cognition; 1.3.2"Representationism and presentationism ; 1.3.3"Naturalism and physical character of mind; 1.3.4"Levels of description; 1.3.5"Internalism (Individualism); 1.4"History; 1.4.1"Prehistory; 1.4.2"Germination; 1.4.3"Beginnings; 1.4.4"Early and classical Cognitive Science.
1.4.5"Contemporary Cognitive Science1.4.6"Interdisciplinarity: methodological notes; 1.5"Summary; 2."Intrasystemic and extrasystemic principles of concept individuation; 2.1"Existential status of concepts; 2.1.1"I-language and E-language; 2.1.2"I-concepts and E-concepts; 2.1.3"Gottlob Frege: metaphysical views and their influence; 2.2"Internalist and externalist principles of content-individuation; 2.2.1"Externalism: arguments by H. Putnam; 2.2.2"Common misunderstandings concerning internalism and externalism about content; 2.2.3"Case against externalism; 2.3"Summary and conclusion.
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