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Concepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world. Tying our past experiences to our present interactions with the environment, they enable us to recognize and understand new objects and events. Concepts are also relevant to understanding domains such as social situations, personality types, and even artistic styles. Yet like other phenomenologically simple cognitive processes such as walking or understanding speech, concept formation and use are maddeningly complex.
Research since the 1970s and the decline of the "classical view" of concepts have greatly illuminated the psychology of concepts. But persistent theoretical disputes have sometimes obscured this progress. The Big Book of Concepts goes beyond those disputes to reveal the advances that have been made, focusing on the major empirical discoveries. By reviewing and evaluating research on diverse topics such as category learning, word meaning, conceptual development in infants and children, and the basic level of categorization, the book develops a much broader range of criteria than is usual for evaluating theories of concepts.
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Murphy has provided a really invaluable resource for students and researchers, and the merely curious will benefit from skimming. -- Times Literary Supplement 17 January 2003
Murphy is one of the leading scholars in this area, and he reviews a complicated literature with honesty, clarity and wit. This is going to be the classic text in the field for a very long time...Anyone seriously interested in concepts and categorization - seasoned researchers, graduates and advanced undergraduates, or scholars who simply want to get a sense of the field - must read this book. -- Nature 16 January 2003
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Gregory L. Murphy is Professor of Psychology at New York University.
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- PublisherMIT Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0262134098
- ISBN 13 9780262134095
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages560
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