A Philosophical History of the Concept

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A Philosophical History of the Concept is written by Stephan Schmid and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1009273825 (ISBN 10) and 9781009273824 (ISBN 13).

The concept of concept plays a central role in philosophy, serving both as a subject of study in disciplines such as logic, epistemology, and philosophy of mind, and as a methodologically central notion for those who think that philosophy is essentially concerned with analysing, deconstructing, developing, or ameliorating concepts. But what exactly are concepts, and why have they become so significant in philosophy? The chapters of this volume explore critical moments in the history of the concept of concept, investigating why and how philosophers across different eras and cultures have understood concepts' nature, acquisition, and relationship to the entities to which they apply. Spanning classical Greek to modern Western philosophies, and incorporating Chinese, Indian, and Islamic traditions, the volume examines concepts as means for categorizing the world - tracing their evolution from elements of thought to foundational components of reality, and the transformation of the concept into the key notion of philosophy.