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Title: The Big Book of Concepts by Gregory L. Murphy ISBN: 0-262-63299-3 Publisher: Bradford Book Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A gem of a book
Comment: Gregory Murphy begins this extraordinary book by saying, "Concepts are the glue that holds our mental world together". This is actually an understatement. Without concepts there would be no mental world in the first place. Concepts are mental representations that tie together specific instances, and are essential for relating ongoing experience to knowledge from the past. Concepts allow us to move from William James' "blooming buzzing confusion" to structured and adaptive thought.
Murphy is one of the leading scholars in this area, and he reviews a messy and complicated literature with honesty, clarity, and wit. This is going to be the classic text in the field for a very long time. It is one of the rare cases where the standard back-of-the-book blurb is actually true: 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 - really must read this book.
(Note: this is an excerpt from a review that was published in the journal "Nature")
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Title: Concepts: Core Readings by Eric Margolis, Stephen Laurence ISBN: 0262631938 Publisher: Bradford Book Pub. Date: 09 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
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Title: Causality and Explanation by Wesley C. Salmon ISBN: 0195108647 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Consciousness: An Introduction by Susan Blackmore ISBN: 019515343X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Lexical Semantics by D. A. Cruse, D.A. Cruse ISBN: 0521276438 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
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Title: Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy D. Wilson ISBN: 0674009363 Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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