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@article{nokey,

title = {Are concepts a natural kind? On concept eliminativism},

author = {Guido Löhr},

doi = {10.33735/phimisci.2023.9632},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-07-19},

urldate = {2023-07-19},

journal = {Philosophy and the Mind Sciences},

volume = {4},

abstract = {Concept eliminativists argue that we should eliminate the term ‘concept’ from our vocabulary in psychology because there is no single natural kind that is picked out by it. I argue that the most developed version of concept eliminativism by Edouard Machery depends on the assumption that concepts are defined as stable and context-independent bodies of information. It is this assumption that leads Machery to eliminativism and it is an assumption we have reason to reject. Another assumption that leads to the eliminativist conclusion and that we have reason to reject is that the type of content represented in long-term memory is the relevant property based on which we should individuate certain natural kinds in cognitive psychology. Finally, I argue that certain pieces of information are functionally integrated enough to meet the conditions for being a natural kind.},

keywords = {Concept Eliminativism, Concept Hybridism, Concept Pluralism, Concepts, Contextualism, Natural kinds},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Löhr2021,

title = {What Are Abstract Concepts? On Lexical Ambiguity and Concreteness Ratings},

author = {Guido Löhr},

doi = {10.1007/s13164-021-00542-9},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-03-30},

urldate = {2021-03-30},

journal = {Review of Philosophy and Psychology},

keywords = {Abstract concepts, Abstractness, Concepts, Concreteness, Context-availability, Imageability, Natural kinds, Polysemy, Scientific kinds},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Löhr2021b,

title = {Social Constructionism, Concept Acquisition and the Mismatch Problem},

author = {Guido Löhr},

doi = {10.1007/s11229-019-02237-2},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-03-01},

urldate = {2021-03-01},

journal = {Synthese},

volume = {198},

issue = {3},

pages = {2659–2673},

keywords = {Concept acquisition, Mismatch problem, Natural kinds, Qua problem, Semantic externalism, Social constructionism, Social kinds, Social ontology},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}