Concepts
My interest in the psychology of concepts stems principally from a desire to put psychology back into philosophy, as described under the heading philosophical applications of cognitive science.
Published Work
- Thinking Off Your Feet: How Empirical Psychology Vindicates Armchair Philosophy. Harvard University Press, 2019. (Lots of stuff in here about concepts.)
- The Naive Aspect of Essentialist Theories. Cognition 74, 149–175, 2000.
- Only Causation Matters: Reply to Ahn et al.. Cognition 82, 71–76, 2001. (Discussion of the previous article.)
- Theoretical Terms without Analytic Truths. Philosophical Studies 160, 167–190, 2012. (Concept acquisition in science.)
Work In Progress
- The Myth of Depth
- Artifact Concepts