Banishing the thought.

Behav Brain Sci

Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043, USA.

Published: June 2010

The first seven chapters of Doing without Concepts offer a perfectly reasonable view of current research on concepts. The last chapter, on which the central thesis of the book rests, provides little actual evidence that using the term "concept" impedes scientific progress. It thus fails to demonstrate that this term should be eliminated from the scientific vernacular.

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