Artifacts are not ascribed essences, nor are they treated as belonging to kinds

By Steven A. Sloman, Barbara C. Malt. 2003

106 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Edward E. Smith
2. Lance J. Rips
3. Douglas L. Medin
4. Edouard Machery

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Lance J. Rips
2. Douglas L. Medin
3. Edouard Machery

Citations in the corpus

• Concepts and categories: Memory, meaning, and metaphysics (2012, background): “In the absence of more direct evidence for essence, the essentialist-minimalist debate is likely to continue (see Ahn et al., 2001; Sloman & Malt, 2003; and Strevens, 2001, for the latest salvos in this dispute).”
• Doing without Concepts (2009, background): “In an important article, Smith and Minda (2000) have cast some doubts on the strength of the evidence for the exemplar approach to concepts, categorization, and concept learning (but see Nosofsky 2000).”