Corinne L Bloch-Mullins
Biographic Data
| ID | 1289965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Corinne L Bloch-Mullins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Corinne L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloch-Mullins |
| SIGNATURE | BLOCH-MULLINS C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marquette University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1638-7476 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Similarity in the making: How folk psychological concepts facilitate development of psychological concepts
Similarity Reimagined (with Implications for a Theory of Concepts)
Similarity‐based theories of concepts have a broad intuitive appeal and have been successful in accounting for various phenomena related to the formation and application of concepts. Their adequacy as theories of concepts has been questioned, however, as similarity is often taken as too flexible, too unconstrained, to be explanatory of categorization. In this article, I propose an account of similarity that takes the “foil” against which the targ…
Scientific Concepts as Forward-Looking: How Taxonomic Structure Facilitates Conceptual Development
This paper examines the interplay between conceptual structure and the evolution of scientific concepts, arguing that concepts are fundamentally 'forward-looking' constructs. Drawing on empirical studies of similarity and categorization, I explicate the way in which the conceptual taxonomy highlights the 'relevant respects' for similarity judgments involved in categorization. I then propose that this taxonomy provides some of the cognitive underp…
Bridging the Gap between Similarity and Causality: An Integrated Approach to Concepts
A growing consensus in the philosophy and psychology of concepts is that while theories such as the prototype, exemplar, and theory theories successfully account for some instances of concept formation and application, none of them successfully accounts for all such instances. I argue against this ‘new consensus’ and show that the problem is, in fact, more severe: the explanatory force of each of these theories is limited even with respect to the…
Similarity in the making: How folk psychological concepts facilitate development of psychological concepts
Scientific Concepts as Forward-Looking: How Taxonomic Structure Facilitates Conceptual Development
This paper examines the interplay between conceptual structure and the evolution of scientific concepts, arguing that concepts are fundamentally 'forward-looking' constructs. Drawing on empirical studies of similarity and categorization, I explicate the way in which the conceptual taxonomy highlights the 'relevant respects' for similarity judgments involved in categorization. I then propose that this taxonomy provides some of the cognitive underp…
Bridging the Gap between Similarity and Causality: An Integrated Approach to Concepts
A growing consensus in the philosophy and psychology of concepts is that while theories such as the prototype, exemplar, and theory theories successfully account for some instances of concept formation and application, none of them successfully accounts for all such instances. I argue against this ‘new consensus’ and show that the problem is, in fact, more severe: the explanatory force of each of these theories is limited even with respect to the…
Bridging the Gap between Similarity and Causality: An Integrated Approach to Concepts
A growing consensus in the philosophy and psychology of concepts is that while theories such as the prototype, exemplar, and theory theories successfully account for some instances of concept formation and application, none of them successfully accounts for all such instances. I argue against this ‘new consensus’ and show that the problem is, in fact, more severe: the explanatory force of each of these theories is limited even with respect to the…
Scientific Concepts as Forward-Looking: How Taxonomic Structure Facilitates Conceptual Development
This paper examines the interplay between conceptual structure and the evolution of scientific concepts, arguing that concepts are fundamentally 'forward-looking' constructs. Drawing on empirical studies of similarity and categorization, I explicate the way in which the conceptual taxonomy highlights the 'relevant respects' for similarity judgments involved in categorization. I then propose that this taxonomy provides some of the cognitive underp…
Similarity Reimagined (with Implications for a Theory of Concepts)
Similarity‐based theories of concepts have a broad intuitive appeal and have been successful in accounting for various phenomena related to the formation and application of concepts. Their adequacy as theories of concepts has been questioned, however, as similarity is often taken as too flexible, too unconstrained, to be explanatory of categorization. In this article, I propose an account of similarity that takes the “foil” against which the targ…
Similarity in the making: How folk psychological concepts facilitate development of psychological concepts
Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works) · Similarity (geometry) (3 works) · Categorization (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)