Words and images
Subtitle: an essay on the origin of ideas
By: Christopher Gauker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780199599462
Subjects: Erkenntnistheorie; Wahrnehmung; Comprehension (Theory of knowledge); Idea (Philosophy); Bewusstsein; Idee
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-298) and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining the question; title: The Lockean theory; title: The Kantian theory; title: Regions of similarity space; title: The Sellarsian theory; title: Imagistic cognition; title: Similarity without concepts; title: Cooperation by means of words; title: Thinking in language.