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  1. Exploratory concept formation and tool development in neuroscience.Philipp Haueis - 2023 - Philosophy of Science 90 (2):354 - 375.
    Developing tools is a crucial aspect of experimental practice, yet most discussions of scientific change traditionally emphasize theoretical over technological change. To elaborate on the role of tools in scientific change, I offer an account that shows how scientists use tools in exploratory experiments to form novel concepts. I apply this account to two cases in neuroscience and show how tool development and concept formation are often intertwined in episodes of tool-driven change. I support this view by proposing (...)
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    Concept formation: a problem in human operant conditioning.Edward J. Green - 1955 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 49 (3):175.
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    Concept formation and emergence of contradictory relations.James Cannon Dixon - 1949 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 39 (2):144.
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    Concept formation in global studies: post-Western approaches to critical human knowledge.Gennaro Ascione - 2024 - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
    This book proposes a new epistemological and methodological approach to concept formation across human and natural sciences, beyond Eurocentrism and specism. The new method enables global epistemics to cope with multiplex challenges coming from geohistorical as well as epistemological standpoints whose methodological potential remains unexplored.
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  5. Concept Formation and Conceptual Metaphor.Ana-Maria Oltețeanu - 2010 - Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations 9:353-358.
    Botha notes that metaphors are pervasive both in thought and in language and in human subjective experience in general: in conceptual metaphor theory metaphors are analyzed as stable and systematic relation- ships between two conceptual domains. Mittelberg explores the semiotic work gestures perform in visualizing abstract concepts and structures, insisting on the different types of iconic modes discernable in gestural representations of the metaphorically conceptualized domain of grammar. Evans considers the cognitive preadaptations that may have paved the way for the (...)
     
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  6. Concept Formation and Scientific Objectivity: Weyl’s Turn against Husserl.Iulian D. Toader - 2013 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 3 (2):281-305.
    This paper argues that Weyl's view that scientific objectivity requires that concepts be freely created, i.e., introduced via Hilbert-style axiomatizations, led him to abandon the phenomenological view of objectivity.
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    Innatism, Concept Formation, Concept Mastery and Formal Education.Christopher Winch - 2015 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 49 (4):539-556.
    This article will consider the claim that the possession of concepts is innate rather than learned. Innatism about concept learning is explained through consideration of the work of Fodor and Chomsky. First, an account of concept formation is developed. Second the argument against the claim that concepts are learned through the construction of a learning paradox developed by Fodor is considered. It is argued that, despite initial plausibility, the learning paradox is not, in fact, a paradox at (...)
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    Concept Formation and Concept Grounding.Jörgen Sjögren & Christian Bennet - 2014 - Philosophia 42 (3):827-839.
    Recently Carrie S. Jenkins formulated an epistemology of mathematics, or rather arithmetic, respecting apriorism, empiricism, and realism. Central is an idea of concept grounding. The adequacy of this idea has been questioned e.g. concerning the grounding of the mathematically central concept of set (or class), and of composite concepts. In this paper we present a view of concept formation in mathematics, based on ideas from Carnap, leading to modifications of Jenkins’s epistemology that may solve some problematic (...)
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    Concept Formation and the Limits of Justification:“Discovering” the Two Electricities.Friedrich Steinle - 2006 - In Jutta Schickore & Friedrich Steinle (eds.), Revisiting Discovery and Justification: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on the Context Distinction. Springer. pp. 183--195.
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    Metaphor, concept formation, and esthetic semeiosis in a Peircean perspective.Bent Sørensen & Torkild Thellefsen - 2006 - Semiotica 2006 (161):199-212.
  11. Nonanalytic concept formation and memory for instances.Lee R. Brooks - 1978 - In Eleanor Rosch & Barbara Bloom Lloyd (eds.), Cognition and Categorization. Lawrence Elbaum Associates. pp. 3--170.
     
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    Concept Formation in Social Science.William Outhwaite - 1983 - Routledge.
    First published in 1983, this book examines the problems of concept formation in the social sciences, and in particular sociology, from the standpoint of a realistic philosophy of science. Beginning with a discussion of positivistic, hermeneutic, rationalist and realistic philosophies of science, Dr Outhwaite argues that realism is best able to furnish rational criteria for the choice and specification of social scientific concepts. A realistic philosophy of science therefore acts as his reference point for the dialectical presentation of (...)
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    Sign-Mediated Concept Formation.Ophir Nave - 2008 - American Journal of Semiotics 24 (1-3):107-123.
    Based on our prior work (Neuman and Nave, in press [a]) we proceed from the notion that the mind has the capacity to generate and use concepts through themediation of signs. This mediation constrains the vast potential for confusion, given the incalculable number of similarities between objects in the world and therefore has important adaptive value. Despite the ubiquity of sign-mediated concept formation (SMCF), a rigorous formalization of this phenomenon is rare. Following the work of Neuman and Nave (...)
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  14. Kant and Abstractionism about Concept Formation.Alberto Vanzo - 2017 - In Stefano Di Bella & Tad M. Schmaltz (eds.), The Problem of Universals in Early Modern Philosophy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 305-323.
    This chapter outlines Kant’s account of empirical concept formation and discusses two objections that have been advanced against it. Kant holds that we form empirical concepts, such as colour concepts, by comparing sensory representations of individuals, identifying shared features, and abstracting from the differences between them. According to the first objection, we cannot acquire colour concepts in this way because there is no feature that all and only the instances of a given colour share and the boundary between (...)
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    Examining Semir Zekis Neural Concept Formation and Art: Dante, Michelangelo, Wagner.Amy Ione - 2003 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 10 (2):58-66.
    In his paper, 'Neural Concept Formation and Art: Dante, Michelangelo, Wagner' Semir Zeki writes 'we can trace the origins of art to a fundamental characteristic of the brain, namely its capacity to form concepts' . He proposes that 'this capacity is itself the by-product of an essential characteristic of the brain. That characteristic is abstraction, and is imposed upon the brain by one of its chief functions, namely the acquisition of knowledge.' . Then, centring his argument around 'the (...)
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    Concept-formation and deep disagreements in theoretical and practical reasoning.Michael Wee - 2025 - Synthese 205 (2):1-29.
    This paper explores the idea that deep disagreements essentially involve disputes about what counts as good reasoning, whether it is theoretical or practical reasoning. My central claim is that deep disagreements involve radically different paradigms of some principle or notion that is constitutively basic to reasoning—I refer to these as “basic concepts”. To defend this claim, I show how we can understand deep disagreements by accepting the indeterminacy of concept-formation: concepts are not set in stone but are responsive (...)
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  17. Concept formation and language development: count nouns and object kinds.Fei Xu - 2009 - In Gareth Gaskell (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford University Press.
     
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    Conceptformation and value education.Johnj Haldane - 1984 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 16 (2):22–28.
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    Concept formation as a function of competition between response produced cues.Howard H. Kendler & Alan D. Karasik - 1958 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 55 (3):278.
  20. The limits of concept formation in natural science: a logical introduction to the historical sciences.Heinrich Rickert - 1986 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Heinrich Rickert (1863-1936) was One of the leading neo-Kantian philosophers in Germany and a crucial figure in the discussions of the foundations of the social sciences in the first quarter of the twentieth century. His views were extremely influential, most significantly on Max Weber. The Limits of Concept Formation in Natural Science is Rickert's most important work, and it is here translated into English for the first time. It presents his systematic theory of knowledge and philosophy of science, (...)
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    Analogies in Scientific Explanations: Concept Formation by Analogies in Cultural Evolutionary Theory.Christian J. Feldbacher - 2014 - In Henrique Jales Ribeiro (ed.), Systematic Approaches to Argument by Analogy. Cham: Springer. pp. 209--226.
    In philosophy of science concept formation and reduction is usually discussed with respect to definability. In the paper at hand this discussion is slightly expanded to an investigation of concept formation and reduction by analogies. It is argued that many kinds of such analogies bear some important features of partial contextual definitions. -/- With the help of a detailed investigation of the so-called gene-meme-analogy it is then demonstrated how the meme-concept is introduced via analogies into (...)
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  22. Concept formation and awareness of the problem type of analysis.Yu Lin & Jingwen Zhan - 2004 - Chinese Literature and Philosophy of Communication 14 (4):5-21.
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  23. Comment: "Concept Formation and Particularizing Learning".Paul Thagard - 1990 - In Philip P. Hanson (ed.), Information, Language and Cognition. University of British Columbia Press. pp. 168-174.
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    VI—Concepts and Concept Formation.S. J. Cyril Barrett - 1963 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 63 (1):127-144.
    S.J. Cyril Barrett; VI—Concepts and Concept Formation, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 63, Issue 1, 1 June 1963, Pages 127–144, https://doi.org/.
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    The Limits of Concept Formation in Natural Science: A Logical Introduction to the Historical Sciences.Guy Oakes (ed.) - 1986 - Cambridge University Press.
    Heinrich Rickert was one of the leading neo-Kantian philosophers in Germany and a crucial figure in the discussions of the foundations of the social sciences in the first quarter of the twentieth century. His views were extremely influential, most significantly on Max Weber. The Limits of Concept Formation in Natural Science is Rickert's most important work, and it is here translated into English for the first time. It presents his systematic theory of knowledge and philosophy of science, and (...)
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    Kant’s Theory of Concept Formation and his Theory of Definitions.Matthew McAndrew - 2023 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 105 (4):591-619.
    Much of the scholarship on Kant’s theory of concept formation has focused on the question of whether his theory suffers from circularity, i. e., whether it presupposes the very concepts whose origin it should explain. In this article, I defend Kant against a well-known objection raised by Hannah Ginsborg. Ginsborg, I argue, overlooks the relatively narrow aim of Kant’s theory of concept formation. Kant explicitly frames it as an account of a concept’s inherent generality, or (...)
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  27. Concept formation and moral development.Gareth Matthews - 1987 - In James Russell (ed.), Philosophical perspectives on developmental psychology. New York, NY: Blackwell.
     
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    Neural Concept Formation & Art Dante, Michelangelo, Wagner Something, and indeed the ultimate thing, must be left over for the mind to do.Semir Zeki - 2002 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 9 (3):53-76.
    What is art? What constitutes great art? Why do we value art so much and why has it been such a conspicuous feature of all human societies? These questions have been discussed at length though without satisfactory resolution. This is not surprising. Such discussions are usually held without reference to the brain, through which all art is conceived, executed and appreciated. Art has a biological basis. It is a human activity and, like all human activities, including morality, law and religion, (...)
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  29. Concept Formation, Truth, and Norm.R. Bartsch - 1985 - In Geer A. J. Hoppenbrouwers, Pieter A. M. Seuren & A. J. M. M. Weijters (eds.), Meaning and the lexicon. Cinnaminson, U.S.A.: Foris Publications.
     
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    Conjunctive and disjunctive concept formation under equal-information conditions.Michael B. Conant & Tom Trabasso - 1964 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 67 (3):250.
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  31. Abstract Concept Formation in Archaic Chinese Script Forms: Some Humboldtian Perspectives.Kwan 關子尹 Tze-Wan - 2011 - Philosophy East and West 61 (3):409-452.
    Starting from the Humboldtian characterization of Chinese writing as a "script of thoughts," this article makes an attempt to show that notwithstanding the important role played by phonetic elements, the Chinese script also relies on visual-graphical means in its constitution of meaning. In point of structure, Chinese characters are made up predominantly of components that are sensible or even tangible in nature. Out of these sensible components, not only physical objects or empirical states of affairs can be expressed, but also (...)
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    Concept formation in the wild.Yrjö Engeström - 2024 - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
    Based on cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT), this book provides a new theoretical framework for understanding the collective formation of concepts that can guide the course of development in different activities and organizations. It is essential reading for researchers, advanced students and practitioners across human and social sciences.
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    Models of incremental concept formation.John H. Gennari, Pat Langley & Doug Fisher - 1989 - Artificial Intelligence 40 (1-3):11-61.
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    Concept Formation in Ethical Theories: Dealing with Polar Predicates.Sebastian Lutz - 2010 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 2010 (August):1-8.
    In "A Danger of Definition: Polar Predicates in Metaethics," Mark Alfano (2009) concludes that the response-dependence theory of Prinz and others and the fitting-attitudes theory first articulated by Brentano are false because they imply empirically false statements. He further concludes that these statements cannot be avoided by revising the definitions of the terms 'good' and 'bad' used in the two theories. I strengthen Alfano's first conclusion by arguing that the two theories are false even if they imply empirically true but (...)
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    Three Kantian Accounts of Concept Formation.Matthew McAndrew - 2021 - Kant Studien 112 (2):159-194.
    This article has two aims. First, I offer a philological analysis of a key passage from Kant’s Logic: § 6. § 6 is widely regarded as the locus classicus for Kant’s theory of concept formation. However, I show that the part of this section that is most cited and discussed by scholars should not be attributed to Kant, as it is not corroborated by any of his Reflexionen. Second, I attempt to identify Jäsche’s source for this unsupported passage. (...)
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    Concept formation and commensurability.Nancy J. Nersessian - 2001 - In Paul Hoyningen-Huene & Howard Sankey (eds.), Incommensurability and Related Matters. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 275--301.
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    Facilitation of concept formation through mediated generalization.Sarnoff A. Mednick & Jonathan L. Freedman - 1960 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 60 (5):278.
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    Concept Formation, Synthesis and Judgment.Ulrich Schlösser - 2013 - In Dina Emundts (ed.), Self, World, and Art: Metaphysical Topics in Kant and Hegel. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 177-206.
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  39. Fundamentals of Concept Formation in Empirical Science.Edward Poznański - 1967 - University of Chicago Press.
  40. Concept formation via Hebbian learning : the special case of prototypical causal sequences.Paul M. Churchland - 2010 - In Peter K. Machamer & Gereon Wolters (eds.), Interpretation: Ways of Thinking About the Sciences and the Arts. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press.
     
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    A study of concept formation as a function of reinforcement and stimulus generalization.Arnold H. Buss - 1950 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 40 (4):494.
  42. Purpose and scientific concept formation.Ernest W. Adams & Williams Y. Adams - 1987 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 38 (4):419-440.
  43. Concept Formation, Synthesis and Judgment.Ulrich Schlösser - 2013 - In Dina Emundts (ed.), Self, World, and Art: Metaphysical Topics in Kant and Hegel. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 177-205.
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    A comparison of reversal shifts and nonreversal shifts in human concept formation behavior.Howard H. Kendler & May F. D'Amato - 1955 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 49 (3):165.
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  45. Animal intelligence and concept-formation.John N. Deely - 1971 - The Thomist 35 (1):43-93.
     
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    A concept-formation approach to attitude acquisition.Ramon J. Rhine - 1958 - Psychological Review 65 (6):362-370.
  47. Concept formation and particularizing learning.Lee R. Brooks - 1990 - In Philip P. Hanson (ed.), Information, Language and Cognition. University of British Columbia Press. pp. 1--141.
     
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    Concepts and Concept Formation.Cyril Barrett - 1963 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 63:127 - 144.
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  49. Chains of meaning: A model for concept formation in contemporary physics theories.Andreas Bartels - 1995 - Synthese 105 (3):347 - 379.
    The rationality of scientific concept formation in theory transitions, challenged by the thesis of semantic incommensurability, can be restored by theChains of Meaning approach to concept formation. According to this approach, concepts of different, succeeding theories may be identified with respect to referential meaning, in spite of grave diversity of the mathematical structures characterizing them in their respective theories. The criterion of referential identity for concepts is that they meet a relation ofsemantic embedding, i.e. that the (...)
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  50. on Concept Formation.I. Aristotle & Posterior Analytics - 2010 - In David Charles (ed.), Definition in Greek philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 424.
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