Concepts: core readings

Concepts and cognitive science / Stephen Laurence and Eric Margolis

Euthyphro / Plato

The process of concept attainment / Jerome Bruner, Jacqueline Goodnow, and George Austin

On the general character of semantic theory / Jerrold Katz

Two dogmas of empiricism / W.V.O. Quine

Philosophical investigations, sections 65-78 / Ludwig Wittgenstein

Is semantics possible? / Hilary Putnam

Principles of categorization / Eleanor Rosch

The exemplar view / Edward Smith and Douglas Medin

What some concepts might not be / Sharon Lee Armstrong, Lila R. Gleitman, and Henry Gleitman

On the adequacy of prototype theory as a theory of concepts / Daniel N. Osherson and Edward E. Smith

Concepts and stereotypes / Georges Rey

What is a concept, that a person may grasp it? / Ray Jackendoff

Precis of A study of concepts / Christopher Peacocke

Resisting primitive compulsions / Georges Rey

Can Possession conditions individuate concepts? / Christopher Peacocke

Combining prorotypes: a selective modification model / Edward E. Smith, Daniel N. Osherson, Lance J. Rips, and Margaret Keane

Cognitive models and prototype theory / George Lakoff

The role of theories in conceptual coherence / Gregory Murphy and Douglas Medin

Knowledge acquisition : enrichment of conceptual change? / Susan Carey

Against definitions / Jerry A. Fodor, Merrill F. Garrettt, Edward C.T. Walker, and Cornelia H. Parkes

Information and representation / Jerry Fodor

A common structure for concepts of individuals, stuffs and real kinds : more Mama, more milk, and more mouse / Ruth Garrett Millikan

How to acquire a concept / Eric Margolis

The object concept revisited : new directions in the investigation of infants' physical knowledge / Renee Baillargeon

Insides and essences : early understandings of the non-obvious / Susan A. Gelman and Harry M. Wellman.