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24Concepts and Categorization. Systematic and Historical Perspectives (edited book)mentis. 2016.The study of concepts lies at the intersection of various disciplines, both analytic and empiric. The rising cognitive sciences, for instance, are interested in concepts insofar as they are used in an explanation of such diverse epistemic phenomena like categorization, inference, memory, learning, and decision-making. In philosophy, the challenge imposed by conceptualization consists, among other things, in accommodating reverse intuitions about concepts like shareability, mind-dependency, media…Read more
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Knowledge Structures and the Nature of ConceptsIn David Hommen, Christoph Kann & Tanja Osswald (eds.), Concepts and Categorization. Systematic and Historical Perspectives, Mentis. 2016.It has become commonplace in the theory of concepts to distinguish between questions about the structure and questions about the ontology of concepts. Structural questions concern the way concepts are composed of, or otherwise related to, other concepts (or non-conceptual constituents), while ontological questions concern the metaphysical nature of concepts: how concepts exist (if they exist); what kind of entities they are. A tacit assumption in discussions about the structure and ontology of c…Read more
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Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfDepartment of Philosophy/DCLPSOther faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
PhD, 2012
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Ontology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Language |
Areas of Interest
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Philosophy of Action |
Persons |
Applied Ethics |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Aristotle |
David Hume |