Conceptual Systems / Edition 1

by Harold I. Brown

Overview

Exploring how new concepts are entered into our systems along with sufficient continuity with older ideas to ensure understanding, this text highlights the different aspects that present an insightful view into the various theories of concepts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415701822
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/18/2006
Series:	Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Pages:	542
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Studying Concepts 2. Conceptual Journeys 3. Some Theories of Concepts 4. Sellars: Exposition and Critique 5. Reconstruction 6. Clarifications, Responses, and Refinements 7. Conceptual Analysis I: Causation 8. Conceptual Analysis II: Epistemic Concepts 9. Case Studies I: Seventeenth Century Physics 10. Case Studies II: Interactions 11. Conceptual Change, Incommensurability, and Progress