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Re: [xmca] Play and the Owl of Minerva



Ineresting paper, Martin.

I liked the suggestion of "concept" being an approach to the study of "situation," rather than the other way around. I agree.
Also appreciate the "prototype" approach. Am I right, I 
think this idea comes to us from the Schleiermeier/Bahktin 
route rather than the Hegel/Vygotsky route? A powerful 
approach, which I think needs to be integrated with 
approaches with an Hegelian heritage.
Pity about Vygotsky being lumped with Piaget and thrown in 
the Cognitivist basket. And pity that the guy who wrote the 
Science of the Concept in 1813 is skipped over as if he 
never existed.
:)
Andy

Martin Packer wrote:
.. this wonderful paper by Eleanor Rosch. She is famous for her work in the 1970s on prototypes; in this paper she takes head on the problems that cognitive science has in actually specifying what a concept is, and she recommends that we need to rethink our views of both mind and world:
<http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/erosch1999.pdf>

Martin

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