The origin of concepts
By: Susan Carey.
Series: Oxford series in cognitive development -- 3
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 598
ISBN-13: 9780195367638
Subjects: Concepts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Some preliminaries; title: The initial representational repertoire : the empiricist picture; title: Core object cognition; title: Core cognition : number; title: Core cognition : agency; title: Representations of cause; title: Language and core cognition; title: Beyond core cognition : natural number; title: Beyond the numeral list representation of integers; title: Beyond core object cognition; title: The process of conceptual change; title: Conclusion I: The origins of concepts; title: Conclusion II: Implications for a theory of concepts.