About Stephen Laurence Stephen Laurence is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Margolis and Laurence are coeditors of Concepts: Core Readings (MIT Press). Books by Stephen Laurence The Building Blocks of Thought A Rationalist Account of the Origins of Concepts by (author) Stephen Laurence & Eric Margolis The Conceptual Mind New Directions in the Study of Concepts edited by Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence Concepts Core Readings edited by Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence