Doing Without Concepts

Doing Without Concepts
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9780195306880
ISBN-13 : 0195306880
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Book Synopsis Doing Without Concepts by : Edouard Machery

Download or read book Doing Without Concepts written by Edouard Machery and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Doing without Concepts, Edouard Machery argues that the dominant psychological theories of concept fail to provide a coherent framework to organize our extensive empirical knowledge about concepts. Machery proposes that to develop such a framework, drastic conceptual changes are required.


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