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24Concepts, Theory-Theory ofIn James Fieser & Bradley Dowden (eds.), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, . 2011.
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16Concepts and the Modularity of ThoughtDialectica 64 (1): 107-130. 2010.Having concepts is a distinctive sort of cognitive capacity. One thing that conceptual thought requires is obeying the Generality Constraint: concepts ought to be freely recombinable with other concepts to form novel thoughts, independent of what they are concepts of. Having concepts, then, constrains cognitive architecture in interesting ways. In recent years, spurred on by the rise of evolutionary psychology, massively modular models of the mind have gained prominence. I argue that these archi…Read more
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8ConceptsIn Byron Kaldis (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Vol. 1, Sage Publications. pp. 138-144. 2013.
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7Simulating Minds: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading‐ by Alvin I. Goldman (review)Philosophical Books 49 (2): 168-170. 2008.
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2A Defense of Conceptual PluralismDissertation, Washington University. 2003.Philosophers have historically been concerned with concepts and their analysis, and in recent decades psychologists have also begun to speculate on what kinds of structures concepts might be. I take concepts to satisfy three core desiderata: they are mental representations, they are the constituents of thoughts, and they are centrally employed in categorization. There are four major theories of concepts currently in play: definitionism, prototype and exemplar theory, the 'theory theory', and con…Read more
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