Beschreibung
Working from an analysis of the philosophical assumptions of the cognitivist perspective, this book unpacks an argument for considering concepts as correlates of lexical labels – for a maximally productive understanding of the relation between concepts, categories, categorisation, and their theoretical models.
Autorenportrait
S?awomir Wacewicz is an Assistant Professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru?, Poland. He holds a PhD in Linguistics. His research interest focuses on the evolution of language, evolution of cognition, and the philosophy of language and mind.
Inhalt
Contents: Cognitive Science – Interdisciplinarity – Internalism and externalism – Concept – Category – Categorization – Mental representation – Conceptual atomism – Prototype models – Exemplar models.
