#112: Thinking Categorically with Greg Murphy

Greg Murphy studies the psychology of concepts. How do we use language to understand things, and how do we sort the world into categories? In our conversation, we consider what makes a category, why we love them, and where they steer us wrong. Dr. Murphy released a book on this topic a few years ago: Categories We Live By How We Classify Everyone and Everything For a transcript of this episode, visit this episode's page at: Learn more about Opinion Science at and follow @OpinionSciPod on Twitter.

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#112: Thinking Categorically with Greg Murphy is an episode from Opinion Science by Andy Luttrell.

This episode is 64:47 long.

This episode was published on Jan 5, 2026.

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