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The nature of Concepts: Evolution, Structure and Representation
Author(s): Philip Van Loocke
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 3 Dec. 1998
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780415179638
- ISBN-13: 0415179637
Book Description
The Nature of Concepts examines a central issue for all the main disciplines in cognitive science: how the human mind creates and passes on to other human minds a concept. An excellent cross-disciplinary collection with contributors including Steven Pinker, Andy Clarke and Henry Plotkin.
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About the Author
Philip Van Loocke is a Senior Research Associate of the Fund for Scientific Research (Flanders/Belgium) and Visiting Professor in Epistemology at the University of Ghent, Belgium.