title: Concepts are a functional kind.
abstract: This commentary focuses on Machery's eliminativist claim, that "concept" ought to be eliminated from the theoretical vocabulary of psychology because it fails to denote a natural kind. I argue for the more traditional view that concepts are a functional kind, which provides the simplest account of the empirical evidence discussed by Machery.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy. elisabetta.lalumera@unimib.it
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lalumera
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D003210:Concept Formation; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D011582:Psychological Theory