ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Concepts as Knowledge Facilitators
Concepts are crucial from an epistemic perspective. Having the right concepts allows asking the right questions, formulating new hypotheses, and providing good explanations. Good concepts are projectable in inductive reasoning. While the ability of concepts to aid and obstruct our thinking has been a recurring theme throughout the history of philosophy, discussions of concepts have little place in current epistemological debates. For instance, existing formal models and informal pictures of updating our beliefs hold fixed conceptual resources: there is no room for conceptual learning. The main aim of the project is to conduct the first large-scale current study of the epistemic significance…
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