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Words and images : an essay on the origin of ideas
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gauker, Christopher, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comprehension (Theory of knowledge).
- Idea (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 302 p.) : ill.
- Other Title:
- Words and images: an essay on the origin of ideas
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Defining the question
- The Lockean theory
- The Kantian theory
- Regions of similarity space
- The Sellarsian theory
- Imagistic cognition
- Similarity without concepts
- Cooperation by means of words
- Thinking in language.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 0-19-172922-1
- 0-19-959946-7
- OCLC:
- 757856733
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