VOLUME 1 (1988), ISSUE 3
- Manuscripts:
- ANDY CLARK
Thoughts, sentences, and cognitive science
DAVID M. JOHNSON
Brutes believe not
HALLA BELOFF
The eye and the me: Self-portraits of eminent photographers
D. LYNN HOLT
Teleological explanation: A species of causal explanation
GRANT GILLETT
Consciousness and brain function
RICHARD DOUBLE
What's wrong with self-serving epistemic strategies
JOHN WILSON & BARBARA COWELL
Social skills in their proper place
CHARLES R. LEGG
Connectionism and physiological psychology: A marriage made in heaven?
JAMES E. ROYCE
Psychologists and philosophy: The birth of Division 24 of the American Psychological Association in 1962
Review Essay:
WILLIAM BECHTEL
Studies of categorization: Review essays of ULRIC NEISSER's Concepts and conceptual development and STEVAN HARNAD's Categorical perception
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Abstract:
Two edited volumes from Cambridge University Press—Concepts and conceptual development, by Ulric Neisser, and Categorical perception, by Stevan Harnad—cover the spectrum from categories used for ordinary objects of the world
to categories used in basic perception. Together they provide an informative
and comprehensive overview of much recent research. While most of each volume is
focused on particular models of categorization and evidence regarding them, each volume contains a final essay which not only attempts to integrate the various contributions, but also place the issues in broader psychological and philosophical perspective. Because of the importance of the topic of categorization to other areas of philosophy and psychology, I will use this review to provide an introduction to what the reader might find in these volumes.