Where do Concepts Come From?

• Authors: Joanna Komorowska-Mach

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Where do Concepts Come From?

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The review discusses the book The Origin of Concepts by Susan Carey, in which she presents three main theses - the innateness of some kind of conceptual representations, the presence of a qualitative change during conceptual development and the existence of a special learning mechanism that achieves that discontinuity called bootstrapping. The general reception of the work is positive. Minor doubts are presented regarding two claims: first, the speculation about the iconic format of core cognition representations, which seems to be underdeveloped and slightly unclear, second, the claim that core cognition representations are innate, which seems to be insufficiently supported by empirical data presented.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 139-145

Dates

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2011-12-01

Contributors

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Joanna Komorowska-Mach