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NOW ACCEPTING COMMENTARY PROPOSALS ON: Book: "Doing Without Concepts" (published by Oxford University Press 2009) Authors: Edouard Machery Deadline for proposals: December 7, 2009 Abstract: The study of concepts is in an odd state of disarray. Cognitive scientists working on categorization, induction, and reasoning have discovered a dazzling amount of phenomena. New work on prototypes in the 1990s and early 2000s, innovative ideas on causal cognition in the first decade of the twenty-first century, the development of the neo-empiricist approach that assimilates the tokening of a concept to a multi-modal perceptual simulation, and the promising growth of the neuropsychology of concepts have rejuvenated the field. At the same time, this extraordinary amount of findings has yet to be organized in a coherent theoretical framework. The current theories of concepts-prototype theories, exemplar theories, theory theories, and neo-empiricist theories-fail to explain all the known phenomena, and there is very little agreement about what concepts are. Doing without Concepts attempts to provide such a theoretical framework. In this article, I review the main points and arguments developed at greater length in Doing without Concepts, and I conclude that abandoning the very notion of concept is probably required to remedy the state of disarray of the current psychology of concepts. Keywords: concept, category, categorization, induction, concept combination, dissociation, empiricism, eliminative argument, natural kind. Download précis article pre-print: http://journals.cambridge.org/BBSJournal/Call/Machery_Preprint COMMENTARY PROPOSALS MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: 1. What aspect of the target article or book you would anticipate commenting upon, 2. The relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the target article or book.+ + Including your relevant expertise saves the Editors valuable time when evaluating proposals. If this requirement is missing, your proposal will be returned for resubmission. Please include names and affiliations of your potential co-authors if applicable. SUGGESTING COMMENTATORS AND NOMINATING BBS ASSOCIATES Commentators must be BBS Associates, or suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions below. To suggest others as possible Commentators, or to nominate others for BBS Associateship status, please email bbsjournal(a)cambridge.org. http://journals.cambridge.org/BBSJournal/Inst/Assoc HOW TO SUBMIT A COMMENTARY PROPOSAL If you would like to nominate yourself for potential commentary invitation, you must submit a Commentary Proposal via our BBS Editorial Manager site: 1. Log-in as Author Username: CQwerty-545 Password: Qwerty875632 Log-in to your BBS Editorial Manager account as an author: http://www.editorialmanager.com/bbs. Note: Please remove your account information before forwarding this Call letter to someone else. For those without an account, please register at the site. You can also request missing username and password info if you have an existing account. 2. Submit New Manuscript Within your author main menu please select Submit New Manuscript. 3. Select Article Type Choose the article type of your manuscript from the pull-down menu. Commentary Proposal article types are temporarily created for each accepted target article or book. Only select the Commentary Proposal article type that you wish to submit a proposal on. For example; "Commentary Proposal (Machery)" 4. Enter Title Please title your proposal submission by indicating the relevant first author name of the target article or book. For example; "Commentary Proposal on Machery" 5. Co-Authors Commentary Proposal submissions are limited to a single author. However, if you are proposing to write a commentary with co-authors -- please list their names, affiliations and email addresses in the body of your Commentary Proposal document. 6. Attach Files The only required submission Item is your Commentary Proposal in MSWord or RTF format. In the Description field please add the first author name of the target article or book. For example; "Commentary Proposal on Machery" 7. Approve Your Submission Editorial Manager will process your Commentary Proposal submission and will create a PDF for your approval. On the 'Submissions Waiting for Author's Approval' page, you can view your PDF, edit, approve, or remove the submission. Once you have Approved the Submission, the PDF will be sent to the editorial office. **It is VERY important that you check the and approve your Commentary Proposal manuscript as described above. Otherwise, we cannot process your submission.** 8. Editorial Office Decision At the conclusion of the Commentary Proposal period, the editors will review all the submitted Commentary Proposals. An undetermined number of Commentary Proposals will be approved and those author names will be added to the final commentary invitation list. At that time you will be notified of the decision. If you are formally invited to submit a commentary, you will be asked to confirm your intention to submit by the commentary deadline. Note: In the case of Multiple Book Review, invitees will be sent a copy of the book to be commented upon if requested. With Multiple Book Reviews, it is the book, not the Précis article that is the target of commentary. Please do not write a commentary unless you have received an official invitation! SPECIAL NOTE Since this is our first year on Editorial Manager, we would like your feedback regarding how the process could be improved. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. 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