{
  "id": "concepts-as-tools-in-the-experimental-generation-of-knowledge-in-cogniti-11938",
  "type": "article-journal",
  "title": "Concepts as Tools in the Experimental Generation of Knowledge in Cognitive Neuropsychology",
  "author": [
    {
      "literal": "Uljana Feest"
    }
  ],
  "container-title": "Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science",
  "volume": "4",
  "issue": "1",
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2010,
        8,
        9
      ]
    ]
  },
  "URL": "https://spontaneousgenerations.com/articles/concepts-as-tools-in-the-experimental-generation-of-knowledge-in-cogniti-11938/",
  "page": "173-190",
  "DOI": "10.4245/sponge.v4i1.11938",
  "abstract": "This paper asks (a) how new scientific objects of research are conceptualized at a point in time when little is known about them, and (b) how those conceptualizations, in turn, figure in the process of investigating the phenomena in question. Situating my approach vis-à-vis existing notions of concepts, I propose to think of concepts as research tools. Narrowing my focus to phenomena in cognitive neuropsychology (specifically: the phenomenon of implicit memory), I develop an account of how concepts can function as tools. This account is based on an original reconstruction of the nature and function of operationism in psychology"
}