Wikforss Marques

Shifting Concepts C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together leading philosophers and psychologists to present novel accounts of concepts, communication, and conceptual change and variability, with the aim to advance the interdisciplinary debate on the role of concepts in categorizing, reasoning, and social interaction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780198803331
• ISBN-10: 0198803338
• Artikelnr.: 58701616

Autorenporträt

Teresa Marques is a researcher in the Philosophy Department of the University of Barcelona and a member of the LOGOS Group and of the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy. Her research interests lie in the philosophy of language, metaethics, and social and legal philosophy. In 2014 she was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship. In 2012-2015, she was a PI in the cross-disciplinary project on concepts and communication CCCOM, a EUROCORES project of the European Science Foundation. She has also held positions at the University Pompeu Fabra, the University of Lisbon, and the University of Maryland - University College Europe. Åsa Wikforss is a professor of theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University. She is a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science and in 2019 she was elected to the Swedish Academy. Her research interests lie in the intersection of philosophy of language, mind, and epistemology. In 2012-2015 she was the leader of a cross-disciplinary project on concepts and communication CCCOM, a EUROCORES project of the European Science Foundation, and in 2018 she was awarded a large grant for a cross-disciplinary program on knowledge resistance, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Shifting Concepts
* Part I. How Concepts Shift: Variation Across Individuals, Times, and
Contexts
* 1: Barbara C. Malt: Mapping Thoughts to Words: Cross-Language
Differences, Learning, and Communication
* 2: Gregory L. Murphy: How to Make Psychological Generalizations When
Concepts Differ: A Case Study of Conceptual Development
* 3: Peter Pagin: When does communication succeed? The case of general
terms
* 4: James A. Hampton: Investigating Differences in People's Concept
Representations
* 5: Yasmina Jraissati: Color Categories in Context
* 6: Zed Adams and Nat Hansen: The Myth of the Common-Sense Conception
of Colour
* 7: Daniel Cohnitz and Jussi Haukioja: Variation in Natural Kind
Concepts
* Part II. To Shift a Concept: Conceptual Revolution, Amelioration, and
Perversion
* 8: Joshua Glasgow: Conceptual Revolution
* 9: Edouard Machery and Luc Faucher: The Folk Concept of Race
* 10: Esa Díaz-León: On the Conceptual Mismatch Argument: Descriptions,
Disagreement, and Amelioration
* 11: Robin O. Andreasen: Conceptual Fragmentation and the Use of
'Race' in Scientific Theorizing
* 12: Sally Haslanger: How Not to Change the Subject
* 13: Teresa Marques: Amelioration vs. Perversion