Ideas of E Margolis/S Laurence, by Theme
[American, fl. 2009, Professors at Vancouver and Sheffield.]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis
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Naturalistic philosophers oppose analysis, preferring explanation to a priori intuition
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism
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Modern empiricism tends to emphasise psychological connections, not semantic relations
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind
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Body-type seems to affect a mind's cognition and conceptual scheme
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought
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Language of thought has subject/predicate form and includes logical devices
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts
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Concepts are either representations, or abilities, or Fregean senses
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / a. Concepts as representations
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A computer may have propositional attitudes without representations
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Do mental representations just lead to a vicious regress of explanations
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / b. Concepts as abilities
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Maybe the concept CAT is just the ability to discriminate and infer about cats
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The abilities view cannot explain the productivity of thought, or mental processes
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / a. Conceptual structure
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Concept-structure explains typicality, categories, development, reference and composition
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / c. Classical concepts
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Classically, concepts give necessary and sufficient conditions for falling under them
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Typicality challenges the classical view; we see better fruit-prototypes in apples than in plums
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The classical theory explains acquisition, categorization and reference
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It may be that our concepts (such as 'knowledge') have no definitional structure
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / d. Concepts as prototypes
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The prototype theory is probabilistic, picking something out if it has sufficient of the properties
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Prototype theory categorises by computing the number of shared constituents
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People don't just categorise by apparent similarities
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Complex concepts have emergent properties not in the ingredient prototypes
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Many complex concepts obviously have no prototype
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / f. Theory theory of concepts
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The theory theory is holistic, so how can people have identical concepts?
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The theory theory of concepts says they are parts of theories, defined by their roles
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / g. Conceptual atomism
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Maybe concepts have no structure, and determined by relations to the world, not to other concepts
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 5. Concepts and Language / c. Concepts without language
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People can formulate new concepts which are only named later
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