Reconceiving conceptual vehicles: Lessons from semantic dementia

Philosophical Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 337-354

  McCaffrey, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept Empiricism; Neuropsychology; Philosophy; Semantic Dementia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922209852     PISSN: 09515089     EISSN: 1465394X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2013.827561     Document Type: Article

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