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14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Difficult Conception of Concepts,
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This review is from: A Study of Concepts (Representation and Mind) (Paperback)
In my work I have found it much important to develop my understanding of semantics, concepts, and meaning. Peacocke's book is a scholarly and powerful treatment of concepts (for which it get 5 stars), but it is also difficult and one-sided. I highly recommend anybody to read the review by Herman Philipse in Inquiry, 1994, 37, pp. 225-252. The reviewer writes that Peacocke leaves out any full treatment of the relations between Concept possession and linguistic understanding. "While the philosophical tradition from Plato to Husserl endorsed it, revolutionary philosophers such as Schliermacher, Nitzsche, Peirce, and Wittgenstein held that it involves a fundamental mistake".What I have found extremely useful for my purpose and for my understanding is the article by Georges Rey on concepts on pp. 185-193 in A COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND (ed. by Samuel Guttenplan. Published by Blackwell, Oxford, UK. in 1994 (and later reprints). I also strongly recommend Frank C. Keil: Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development. Cambridge, MA.: The MIT Press, 1989. |
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A Study of Concepts (Representation and Mind) by Christopher Peacocke (Paperback - September 25, 1995)
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