How History Made the Mind: The Cultural Origins of Objective Thinking - Softcover

Martel Johnson, David

 
9780812695366: How History Made the Mind: The Cultural Origins of Objective Thinking
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0812695364 ISBN 13: 9780812695366
Verlag: Open Court, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

How History Made the Mind, David Martel Johnson argues that what we now think of as "reason" or "objective thinking" is not a natural product of the existence of an enlarged brain or culmination of innate biological tendencies. Rather, it is a way of learning to use the brain that runs counter to the natural characteristics involved in being an animal, a mammal, and a primate. Johnson defends his theory of mind as a cultural artifact against objections, and uses it to question a number of currently fashionable positions in philosophy of mind, known theories of Julian Jaynes, which Johnson argues go too far in the direction of emphasizing the dissimilarities between ancient and modern ways of thinking.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Open Court
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0812695364
ISBN 13 
9780812695366
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
preigu
mail@preigu.de

Lengericher Landstr. 19
Osnabrück
49078
Deutschland