Internal Perception

Discusses how bodily information contributes to categorization

Uses language and specifically semantic competence to understand the internal cognitive processes underlying categorization and conceptualization

Proposes a distinction between categories and concepts

Analyzes how abstract concepts as well as concepts describing internal states, emotions are constituted and how people develop semantic competence with respect to the words that denote them

Discusses how bodily information contributes to categorization Uses language and specifically semantic competence to understand the internal cognitive processes underlying categorization and conceptualization Proposes a distinction between categories and concepts Analyzes how abstract concepts as well as concepts describing internal states, emotions are constituted and how people develop semantic competence with respect to the words that denote them Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Zusammenfassung

Discusses how bodily information contributes to categorization

Uses language and specifically semantic competence to understand the internal cognitive processes underlying categorization and conceptualization

Proposes a distinction between categories and concepts

Analyzes how abstract concepts as well as concepts describing internal states, emotions are constituted and how people develop semantic competence with respect to the words that denote them

Inhalt
First Person Access to Mental States.- The Misleading Aspects of the Mind/Computer Analogy.- Semantic Competence from the Inside: Conceptual Architecture and Composition.- In the Beginning There Were Categories.- Internal States: From Headache to Anger: Conceptualization and Semantic Mastery.- The 'Proprioceptive' Component of Abstract Concepts.- Concluding remarks.<p