Wittgenstein and Categorization Research in Cognitive Psychology

摘要: Research in psychology tends to reflect, sometimes self-consciously, prevailing philosophical viewpoints. Categorization is the area cognitive which deals with ancient problem of universals, that is, fact unique particular objects or events can be treated equivalently. Prior 1970s, categorization research tended mirror simplified worlds described early Wittgenstein and logical positivism. However, Wittgenstein’s later philosophy has revolutionary implications for many aspects human thought, among them issues categorization. In this paper, I will argue modern natural categories actually derived from Wittgensteinian insights, but ambivalently so: It work symptoms rather than root his challenge.