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| Author | : Mark Turner |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2014-03 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 019998882X |
Humans are unique among all other species in having one cognitive attribute-the ability, almost without conscious effort, to engage in blending. This is the first book that brings the theory of blending to a wide audience and shows how blending is at the heart of the origin of ideas.
| Author | : Antonio Rosmini |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 1883 |
| Genre | : Knowledge, Theory of |
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| Author | : Mark Turner |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 595 |
| Release | : 2014-01-02 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0199988846 |
What makes human beings so innovative, so adept at rapid, creative thinking? Where do new ideas come from, and once we have them, how can we carry them mentally into new situations? What allows our thinking to range easily over time, space, causation, and agency-so easily that we take this truly remarkable ability for granted? In The Origin of Ideas, Mark Turner offers a provocative new theory to answer these and many other questions. While other species do what we cannot-fly, run amazingly fast, see in the dark-only human beings can innovate so rapidly and widely. Turner argues that this distinctively human spark was an evolutionary advance that developed from a particular kind of mental operation, which he calls "blending": our ability to take two or more ideas and create a new idea in the "blend." Turner begins by looking at the "lionman," a 32,000-year-old ivory figurine, one of the earliest examples of blending. Here, the concepts "lion" and "man" are merged into a new figure, the "lionman." Turner argues that at some stage during the Paleolithic Age, humans reached a tipping point. Before that, we were a bunch of large, unimaginative mammals. After that, we were poised to take over the world. Once biological evolution hit upon making brains that could do advanced blending, we possessed the capacity to invent and maintain culture. Cultural innovation could then progress by leaps and bounds over biological evolution itself, leading to the highest forms of human cognition and creativity. For anyone interested in how and why our minds work the way they do, The Origin of Ideas offers a wealth of original insights-and is itself a brilliant example of the innovative thinking it describes.
| Author | : Christopher Gauker |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 2011-06-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199599467 |
For centuries philosophers have attempted to derive concepts from perceptual representations but have failed to explain how the mind generates the building blocks of thought. Gauker addresses this problem in a new account of imagistic cognition. He shows that much of cognition occurs by means of mental imagery, without the help of concepts.
| Author | : Arthur O. Lovejoy |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2019-12-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1421432382 |
Originally published in 1948. In the first essay of this collection, Lovejoy reflects on the nature, methods, and difficulties of the historiography of ideas. He maps out recurring phenomena in the history of ideas, which the essays illustrate. One phenomenon is the presence and influence of the same presuppositions or other operative "ideas" in very diverse provinces of thought and in different periods. Another is the role of semantic transitions and confusions, of shifts and of ambiguities in the meanings of terms, in the history of thought and taste. A third phenomenon is the internal tensions or waverings in the mind of almost every individual writer—sometimes discernible even in a single writing or on a single page—arising from conflicting ideas or incongruous propensities of feeling or taste to which the writer is susceptible. These essays do not contribute to metaphysical and epistemological questions; they are primarily historical.
| Author | : Jonnie Hughes |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2012-06-19 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1439110247 |
We humans pride ourselves on our capacity to have ideas, but perhaps this pride is misplaced. Perhaps ideas have us. After all, ideas do appear to have a life of their own. Many biologists have already come to the opinion that our genes are selfish entities, tricking us into helping them to reproduce. Is it the same with our ideas? Jonnie Hughes, a science writer and documentary filmmaker, investigates the evolution of ideas in order to find out. Adopting the role of a cultural Charles Darwin, Hughes heads off, with his brother in tow, across the Midwest to observe firsthand the natural history of ideas--the patterns of their variation, inheritance, and selection in the cultural landscape. In place of Darwin's oceanic islands, Hughes visits the "mind islands" of Native American tribes. Instead of finches, Hughes searches for signs of natural selection among the tepees.--From publisher description.
| Author | : Matthieu Queloz |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2021-04-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0192639331 |
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Why did such highly abstract ideas as truth, knowledge, or justice become so important to us? What was the point of coming to think in these terms? In The Practical Origins of Ideas Matthieu Queloz presents a philosophical method designed to answer such questions: the method of pragmatic genealogy. Pragmatic genealogies are partly fictional, partly historical narratives exploring what might have driven us to develop certain ideas in order to discover what these do for us. The book uncovers an under-appreciated tradition of pragmatic genealogy which cuts across the analytic-continental divide, running from the state-of-nature stories of David Hume and the early genealogies of Friedrich Nietzsche to recent work in analytic philosophy by Edward Craig, Bernard Williams, and Miranda Fricker. However, these genealogies combine fictionalizing and historicizing in ways that even philosophers sympathetic to the use of state-of-nature fictions or real history have found puzzling. To make sense of why both fictionalizing and historicizing are called for, this book offers a systematic account of pragmatic genealogies as dynamic models serving to reverse-engineer the points of ideas in relation not only to near-universal human needs, but also to socio-historically situated needs. This allows the method to offer us explanation without reduction and to help us understand what led our ideas to shed the traces of their practical origins. Far from being normatively inert, moreover, pragmatic genealogy can affect the space of reasons, guiding attempts to improve our conceptual repertoire by helping us determine whether and when our ideas are worth having.
| Author | : Antonio Rosmini |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 482 |
| Release | : 2024-02-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3385339219 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
| Author | : Antonio Rosmini |
| Publisher | : WRITTINGS OF BLESSED ANTONIO ROSMINI |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781899093601 |
After examining the history of philosophical theory about the possibility of thought, Rosmini sets out his own conclusion about the nature and origin of thought. It is dependent upon the innate, objective light of reason - the 'idea of being', as he calls it.
