Concepts as correlates of lexical labels : a cognitivist perspective /
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| Author / Creator: | Wacewicz, Sławomir, author. |
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| Imprint: | Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, [2015] |
| Description: | 236 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Dis/continuities : Toruń studies in language, literature and culture ; vol. 9 Dis/continuities ; v. 9. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10336798 |
Table of 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. Begmnings
- 1.4.4. Early and classical Cognitive Science
- 1.4.5. Contemporary Cognitive Science
- 1.4.6. mterdisciplrnarity: methodological notes
- 1.5. Summary
- 2. Intrasystemic and extrasystemic principles of concept individuation
- 2.1.1. Existential status of concepts
- 2.1.1. I-language and E-language
- 2.1.2. I-concepts and E-concepts
- 2.1.3. Gortlob 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
- Part II. The Theoretical Foundations of The Study of Concepts
- Introduction and notation
- 3. Concepts, categorisation, mental representation. Preliminary definitions and discussion. Historical background
- Introduction and caveats
- 3.1. Concepts
- 3.1.1. Preliminary definitions
- 3.1.2. Historical note
- 3.1.3. Discussion
- 3.2. Categories, categorisation
- 3.2.1. Preliminary definition
- 3.2.2. Categories
- 3.2.3. Categorisation
- 3.3. Mental representation
- 3.4. Summary
- 4. Concepts in Cognitive Science
- 4.1. Scope of study
- 4.2. Concepts in Cognitive Science. Concepts as lexical categories
- 4.2.1. Introductory remarks
- 4.2.2. What is 'a concept'? Conditions on theories of concepts
- 4.2.3. Concepts are mental representations
- 4.2.4. Concepts are categories
- 4.2.5. Concepts have lexical correlates
- 4.2.6. Concepts are shareable/concepts subserve communication
- 4.3. Conclusion
- Part III. Contemporary Approaches To Categorisation And Conceptual Structure
- 5. Classical approach to categorization and conceptual structure
- 5.1. Theories of categorisation or theories of concepts? Review of terminological problems
- 5.2. Classical approach
- 5.2.1. Exposition
- 5.2.2. History
- 5.2.3. Criticism
- 5.2.4. Evaluation
- 5.2.5. Specific problem: feature format
- 5.2.6. Natural Semantic Metalanguage
- 5.3. Summary and conclusion
- 6. Conceptual atomism and its refutation
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Jerry Fodor's theory of concepts
- 6.2.1. Naturalism
- 6.2.2. Folk psychology
- 6.2.3. Systematic nature of human thought (compositionality)
- 6.2.4. Consequences
- 6.2.5. Fodor's conceptual atomism and informational semantic
- 6.3. Criticism of Fodor's conceptual atomism
- 6.3.1. Radical concept nativism
- 6.3.2. Problem of elimination of epistemic factors
- 6.4. Recapitulation
- 7. From prototype to exemplar models in nonlexical and lexical categorisation
- 7.1. Preliminary remarks
- 7.2. Similarity as theoretical notion
- 7.2.1. Problems with similarity
- 7.2.2. Ways of constraining similarity
- 7.3. Prototype and exemplar models of categorisation
- 7.3.1. What is 'a prototype'?
- 7.3.2. Categorisation by prototype
- 7.3.3. What is 'an exemplar'?
- 7.3.4. Categorisation by exemplars
- 7.4. From prototype to exemplar models in lexical categorisation
- 7.4.1. Distinguishing exemplar from prototype models
- 7.4.2. Distinctiveness and advantages of exemplar models
- 7.5. Summary
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Glossary of central terms
