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--- abstract: '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.' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: December 16-18 conference: 4th Congress of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy confloc: 'Murcia, Spain' contact_email: ~ creators_id: - 4865 creators_name: - family: Brigandt given: Ingo honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2004 date_type: published datestamp: 2004-11-13 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/39/34 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 3934 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/3934/1/SEFA_04_Brigandt.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: inpress issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'concepts, concept individuation, holism, conceptual role semantics, conceptual change, gene concept' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:43 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: | Block, N. (1986) “Advertisement for a Semantics for Psychology.” In: P.A. French, Th.E. Uehling, and H.K. Wettstein (eds.) Studies in the Philosophy of Mind. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 10. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 615–678. Boghossian, P. A. (1996) “Analyticity reconsidered.” Noûs 30: 360–391. Brigandt, I. (in prep.a) “The role a concept plays in science — The case of homology.” http://www.pitt.edu/~inb1/role.pdf Brigandt, I. (in prep.b) “An alternative to Kitcher's theory of conceptual progress and his account of the change of the gene concept.” http://www.pitt.edu/~inb1/genes.pdf Chambers, J. K. and Trudgill, P. (1980) Dialectology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Devitt, M. (1993a) “A critique of the case for semantic holism.” Philosophical Perspectives 7: 281–306. Devitt, M. (1993b) “Localism and Analyticity.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53: 641–646. Fodor, J. A. and Lepore, E. (1992) Holism: A Shoppers’ Guide. Oxford: Blackwell. Francis, W. Nelson (1983) Dialectology. London: Longman. Haas-Spohn, U. and Spohn, W. (2001) “Concepts are Beliefs about Essences.” In: A. Newen, U. Nortmann, and R. Stuhlmann-Laeisz (eds.) Building on Frege: New Essays About Sense, Content, and Concepts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 287–318. Harman, G. (1973) Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Jackman, H. (unpublished) “Holism, Context and Content.” Paper delivered at the First Joint Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. July 2004, Barcelona, Spain. Kitcher, P. (1978) “Theories, Theorists, and Theoretical Change.” The Philosophical Review 87: 519–547. Sellars, W. (1948) “Concepts as Involving Laws, and Inconceivable Without Them.” Philosophy of Science 15: 287–315. Waters, C. K. (1994) “Genes Made Molecular.” Philosophy of Science 61: 163–185. relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:54:25 subjects: - phil-lang - phil-sci succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Holism, Concept Individuation, and Conceptual Change' type: confpaper userid: 4865 volume: ~