Concepts and their Acquisition. Assessing Jerry Fodor's Concept Theory in Comparison with the Classical/Empiricist View

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Brighton (School of Humanities), course: Approaches to the Study of Meaning, language: English, abstract: Jerry Fodor’s radical concept of nativism did not find many supporters. Some scholars have even declared it to be utterly ridiculous. Yet, as Laurence and Margolis point out...