title: Holism, Concept Individuation, and Conceptual Change creator: Brigandt, Ingo subject: Philosophy of Language subject: Philosophy of Science description: The paper discusses concept individuation in the context of scientific concepts and conceptual change in science. It is argued that some concepts can be individuated in different ways. A particular term may be viewed as corresponding to a single concept (which is ascribed to every person from a whole scientific field). But at the same time, we can legitimately individuate in a more fine grained manner, i.e., this term can also be considered as corresponding to two or several concepts (so that each of these concepts is attributed to a smaller group of persons only). The reason is that there are different philosophical and explanatory interests that underlie a particular study of the change of a scientific term. These interests determine how a concept is to be individuated; and as the same term can be subject to different philosophical studies and interests, its content can be individuated in different ways. date: 2004 type: Conference Paper type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/3934/1/SEFA_04_Brigandt.pdf identifier: Brigandt, Ingo (2004) Holism, Concept Individuation, and Conceptual Change. [Conference Paper] (In Press) relation: http://cogprints.org/3934/