Atomism, Pluralism, and Conceptual Content
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10350403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel A Weiskopf (0000-0002-2788-2280, Georgia State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 131-163 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8205 • E-ISSN: 1933-1592 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2009.00269.x |
| OpenAlex | W2102957950 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 38 |
Conceptual atomists argue that most of our concepts are primitive. I take up three arguments that have been thought to support atomism and show that they are inconclusive. The evidence that allegedly backs atomism is equally compatible with a localist position on which concepts are structured representations with complex semantic content. I lay out such a localist position and argue that the appropriate position for a non‐atomist to adopt is a pluralist view of conceptual structure. I show several ways in which conceptual pluralism provides an advantage in satisfying the empirical and philosophical demands on a theory of conceptual structure and content
Atomism · Content (measure theory · Epistemology · Pluralism (philosophy · Sociology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
The Conceptual Mind
Hybrid and pluralist accounts of concepts
Concepts and cognitive structures
Polysemy and thought
The cognitive role of concept variability
The plurality of concepts
Dual Content Semantics, privative adjectives, and dynamic compositionality
Concepts as Pluralistic Hybrids
Prototypes as compositional components of concepts
Engineering what? On concepts in conceptual engineering
The Essential Child
Concepts
The Big Book of Concepts
Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development
Furnishing the Mind
Arguments concerning representations for mental imagery.
Naming and Necessity
The meaning of ‘meaning’
Ad hoc categories
On Clear and Confused Ideas
Psychosemantics
Partial Character and the Language of Thought
Conceptual Structure and the Individuation of Content
Individualism and the Mental
Recent views of conceptual structure
Concepts and conceptual development
| Citations per year | 0.59 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |