Words and images [electronic resource] : an essay on the origin of ideas / Christopher Gauker.

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Gauker, Christopher

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TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 302 p.) : illISBN:

9780191729225 (ebook) :

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121.4 23

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BD220

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Oxford scholarship online

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.

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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