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The Origin of Concepts (Paperback)
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The Origin of Concepts (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Series in Cognitive Development
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Only human beings have a rich conceptual repertoire with concepts
like tort, entropy, Abelian group, mannerism, icon and
deconstruction. How have humans constructed these concepts? And
once they have been constructed by adults, how do children acquire
them? While primarily focusing on the second question, in The
Origin of Concepts , Susan Carey shows that the answers to both
overlap substantially. Carey begins by characterizing the innate
starting point for conceptual development, namely systems of core
cognition. Representations of core cognition are the output of
dedicated input analyzers, as with perceptual representations, but
these core representations differ from perceptual representations
in having more abstract contents and richer functional roles. Carey
argues that the key to understanding cognitive development lies in
recognizing conceptual discontinuities in which new
representational systems emerge that have more expressive power
than core cognition and are also incommensurate with core cognition
and other earlier representational systems. Finally, Carey fleshes
out Quinian bootstrapping, a learning mechanism that has been
repeatedly sketched in the literature on the history and philosophy
of science. She demonstrates that Quinian bootstrapping is a major
mechanism in the construction of new representational resources
over the course of childrens cognitive development. Carey shows how
developmental cognitive science resolves aspects of long-standing
philosophical debates about the existence, nature, content, and
format of innate knowledge. She also shows that understanding the
processes of conceptual development in children illuminates the
historical process by which concepts are constructed, and
transforms the way we think about philosophical problems about the
nature of concepts and the relations between language and thought.
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