- Hardcover: 560 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press (14 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262134098
- ISBN-13: 978-0262134095
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 17.7 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,331,395 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Superb.... Murphy is one of the leading scholars in this area, and he reviews a complicated literature with honesty, clarity, and wit. This is going to be the classic text in the field for a very long time. It is one of those rare cases in which the standard back-of-the-book blurb is actually true. Anyone seriously interested in concepts and categorization - seasoned researchers, graduates and advanced undergraduates, or scholars who simply want to get a sense of the field - must read this book." - Paul Bloom, Nature"
Times Literary Supplement 17 January 2003
Murphy has provided a really invaluable resource for students and researchers, and the merely curious will benefit from skimming.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A fabulous resource for the student or the interested lay-person. Though not strictly exhaustive, Greg Murphy has pretty much all bases covered with this opus, and is relatively unpartisan, and very generous in his coverage. An excellent and much-needed review of the field, this is a must-have for anyone interested in or studying concepts and categorisation.
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A gem of a book
14 Feb 2004
Format:Hardcover
Gregory Murphy begins this extraordinary book by saying, "Concepts are the glue that holds our mental world together". This is actually an understatement. Without concepts there would be no mental world in the first place. Concepts are mental representations that tie together specific instances, and are essential for relating ongoing experience to knowledge from the past. Concepts allow us to move from William James' "blooming buzzing confusion" to structured and adaptive thought.
Murphy is one of the leading scholars in this area, and he reviews a messy and complicated literature with honesty, clarity, and wit. This is going to be the classic text in the field for a very long time. It is one of the rare cases where the standard back-of-the-book blurb is actually true: Anyone seriously interested in concepts and categorization - seasoned researchers, graduates and advanced undergraduates, or scholars who simply want to get a sense of the field - really must read this book.
(Note: this is an excerpt from a review that was published in the journal "Nature")
Wonderfully detailed and informative book
10 Jan 2012
Format:Paperback
The Big Book of Concepts is the best book on concepts since George Lakoff's Women, Fire and Dangerous Things, published 15 years earlier. I am a professional cognitive scientist and I first read this book a number of years ago. I recently needed to look something up on infant concept formation, so I reread the chapter called "Concepts in Infancy," and was reminded just how good the book is. It is crammed with so much information that it has the potential for being as dry as dust, but, happily, it is loaded with clear examples, and is written in such a fluid style that you tend to keep reading, even after you've found the item or reference or example you were looking for. The book includes in-depth discussions of everything from theories of what constitutes a concept, to how they develop, to how they are related to words, and to the role of computational modeling in concept understanding (the succinct description of Nosofsky's Generalized Context Model, pp. 65-71, is one of the clearest, simplest descriptions of that model around). In short, for people interested in concepts and categorization, this book is a must-have for their library.
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