Shifting Concepts : The Philosophy and Psychology of Conceptual Variability - Teresa Marques

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Shifting Concepts

The Philosophy and Psychology of Conceptual Variability

By: Teresa Marques (Editor), Åsa Wikforss (Editor)

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Hardcover | 21 May 2020

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Concepts stand at the centre of human cognition. We use concepts in categorizing objects and events in the world, in reasoning and action, and in social interaction. It is therefore not surprising that the study of concepts constitutes a central area of research in philosophy and psychology, yet only recently have the two disciplines developed greater interaction. Recent experiments in psychology that test the role of concepts in categorizing and reasoning have found a great deal of variation, across individuals and cultures, in categorization behaviour. Meanwhile, philosophers of language and mind have investigated the semantic properties of concepts, and how concepts are related to linguistic meaning and linguistic communication. A key motivation behind this was the idea that concepts must be shared across individuals and cultures. With the dawn of experimental philosophy, the proposal that the experimental data from psychology lacks relevance to semantics is increasingly
difficult to defend.

This volume brings together leading psychologists and philosophers to advance the interdisciplinary debate on the role of concepts in categorizing and reasoning, the relationship between concepts and linguistic meaning and communication, the challenges conceptual variation poses to communication, and the social and political effects of conceptual change.

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Shifting Concepts proves so fundamentally vital at our current moment, for our politics -- and the people for whom our political systems ostensibly operate -- seem ever on the verge of losing touch with reality. * Guy Lancaster, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *
The book she has assembled with co-editor Marques offers an array of thoughtful chapters from a variety of disciplinary perspectives that emphasize the role concepts play in our interpersonal communication and how these concepts may be transformed for purposes of expanding or contracting the potential of human liberation. * Guy Lancaster, Mrx and Philosophy: Review of Books *
All in all, the chapters are clearly written and well-structured and the collection is enjoyable to read for a broad interdisciplinary audience. * Christian Michel, Metascience *

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