Words and images an essay on the origin of ideas

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 men...

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Main Author: Gauker, Christopher
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2011, 2011
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