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A Study of Concepts (Paperback, New Ed)
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A Study of Concepts (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Representation and Mind series
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This book provides a detailed, systematic, and accessible
introduction to an original philosophical theory of concepts that
Christopher Peacocke has developed in recent years to explain facts
about the nature of thought, including its systematic character,
its relations to truth and reference, and its normative dimension.
Philosophers from Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein to the recent
realists and antirealists have sought to answer the question, What
are concepts? This book provides a detailed, systematic, and
accessible introduction to an original philosophical theory of
concepts that Christopher Peacocke has developed in recent years to
explain facts about the nature of thought, including its systematic
character, its relations to truth and reference, and its normative
dimension. Particular concepts are also treated within the general
framework: perceptual concepts, logical concepts, and the concept
of belief are discussed in detail. The general theory is further
applied in answering the question of how the ontology of concepts
can be of use in classifying mental states, and in discussing the
proper relation between philosophical and psychological theories of
concepts. Finally, the theory of concepts is used to motivate a
nonverificationist theory of the limits of intelligible thought.
Peacocke treats content as broad rather than narrow, and his
account is nonreductive and non-Quinean. Yet Peacocke also argues
for an interactive relationship between philosophical and
psychological theories of concepts, and he plots many connections
with work in cognitive psychology.
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