Doing Without Concepts

by Edouard Machery

Book Overview

Over recent years, the psychology of concepts has been rejuvenated by new work on prototypes, inventive ideas on causal cognition, the development of neo-empiricist theories of concepts, and the inputs of the budding neuropsychology of concepts. But our empirical knowledge about concepts has yet to be organized in a coherent framework.

In Doing without Concepts, Edouard Machery argues that the dominant psychological theories of concepts fail...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199837562
• ISBN13: 9780199837564
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"