Concepts and their role in knowledge : reflections on objectivist epistemology /
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| Language: | English |
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University of Pittsburgh Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Ayn Rand Society philosophical studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Ayn Rand's theory of concepts: rethinking abstraction and essence / Allan Gotthelf
- Conceptualization and justification / Gregory Salmieri
- Perceptual awareness as presentational / Onkar Ghate
- Concepts, context, and the advance of science / James G. Lennox
- Rand on concepts, definitions, and the advance of science: comments on Gotthelf and Lennox / Paul E. Griffiths
- Natural kinds and Rand's theory of concepts: reflections on Griffiths / Onkar Ghate
- Rand on definitions
- one size fits all? Comments on Gotthelf / Jim Bogen
- Taking the measure of a definition: response to Bogen / Allan Gotthelf
- On concepts that change with the advance of science: comments on Lennox / Richard M. Burian
- Conceptual development versus conceptual change: response to Burian / James G. Lennox
- In defense of the theory of appearing: comments oh Ghate and Salmieri / Pierre Le Morvan
- Forms of awareness and "three-factor" theories / Gregory Salmieri
- Direct perception and Salmieri's "forms of awareness" / Bill Brewer
- Keeping up appearances: reflections on the debate over perceptual infallibilism / Benjamin Bayer.