Pluralistic Conceptualization

by Counts, Bryce

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Because our phenomenological experience of the world is fundamentally a conceptual one, I posit a pluralistic view of concepts that attempts to account for their fluidity, flexibility and productivity. I claim that what appear to be discrete concepts are really instantial interactions with a single conceptual ability responsible for "formatting" or otherwise giving recognitional structure to what we describe as experiential content. Following this claim, I examine the implications of formatting…

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Because our phenomenological experience of the world is fundamentally a conceptual one, I posit a pluralistic view of concepts that attempts to account for their fluidity, flexibility and productivity. I claim that what appear to be discrete concepts are really instantial interactions with a single conceptual ability responsible for "formatting" or otherwise giving recognitional structure to what we describe as experiential content. Following this claim, I examine the implications of formatting and cognition through analogies in computation, considering the possibility that conceptualization - taken to be a kind of cognitive formatting - may be required in every case of subject-oriented conscious life.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2021

Thesis Information

  • Degree:M.A.
  • University:Oklahoma State University
  • Advisor/Supervisor:Spaulding, Shannon
  • Pages:47

Publication Statements

  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2021

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  • proquest:2585367915

Subjects

Cognition Cognitive psychology Concepts consciousness eng epistemology PDF phenomenology Philosophy of religion Philosophy of science Pluralistic conceptualization Subjectivity

Writers

Counts, Bryce Spaulding, Shannon

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