1st Edition

Concepts in Thought, Action, and Emotion New Essays

Edited By Christoph Demmerling, Dirk Schröder Copyright 2021
328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

In recent years, the idea of a concept has become increasingly central to different areas of philosophy. This collection of original essays presents philosophical perspectives on the link between concepts and language, concepts and experience, concepts and know-how, and concepts and emotion. The essays span a variety of interrelated philosophical domains ranging from epistemology, philosophy of... Read more

1. Introduction: Concepts in Thought, Action and Emotion

Christoph Demmerling and Dirk Schröder

Part I. Concepts and Experience

2. Concepts and Experience: A Non-Representationalist Perspective

Hans-Johann Glock

3. Conceptualism and the Notion of a Concept

Hannah Ginsborg

4. Concepts, Belief, and Perception

Alex Byrne

5. The Explanatory Merits of Reasons-First Epistemology

Eva Schmidt

Part II. Concepts and Language 


6. Conceptual Thought Without Language? The Case from Animal Cognition

Markus Wild

7. Concepts, Normativity, and Self-Knowledge: On Ginsborg’s Notion of Primitive Normativity

David Lauer

8. A Role for Language in Concept Formation

Jasper Liptow

9. Practical Understanding, Concepts, and Language

Dirk Schröder

Part III. Concepts and Knowledge-How

10. Concepts and Action: Know-how and Beyond

David Löwenstein

11. Knowledge-How and Its Exercises

Hannes Worthmann

12. Practical Understanding: Skill as Grasp of Method

John Bengson

13. Primary Know-How: Understanding Through Practical Concepts

Martin Weichold

Part IV. Concepts and Emotion

14. Emotions Inside Out: The Nonconceptual Content of Emotions

Christine Tappolet

15. A Challenge to Perceptual Theories of Emotion

Jan Slaby

16. Emotions and the Conceptual Space of Human Life

Christoph Demmerling

Biography

Christoph Demmerling is Professor for Theoretical Philosophy at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. He is co-editor of the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie. The philosophy of emotions, philosophy of language, and phenomenology are his main research areas. He has published a great number of writings, among them Sinn, Bedeutung, Verstehen. Untersuchungen zu Sprachphilosophie und Hermeneutik (2002) and Philosophie der Gefühle. Von Achtung bis Zorn (2007; with Hilge Landwer).

Dirk Schröder is Research Associate in the department of philosophy at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. He is the author of Bedeutung und Bedeutsamkeit. Philosophische Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von sprachlichem und nicht-sprachlichem Verstehen (mentis, forthcoming) and coauthor of the article Fähigkeiten und praktische Begriffe (DZPhil, 2013; with Christoph Demmerling).