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Gauker, Christopher

 
9780199599462: Words and Images: An Essay on the Origin of Ideas
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ISBN 10: 0199599467 ISBN 13: 9780199599462
Editorial: OUP Oxford, 2011

Sinopsis

At least since Locke, philosophers and psychologists have usually held that concepts arise out of sensory perceptions, thoughts are built from concepts, and language enables speakers to convey their thoughts to hearers. Christopher Gauker holds that this tradition is mistaken about both concepts and language. The mind cannot abstract the building blocks of thoughts from perceptual representations. More generally, we have no account of the origin of concepts that grants them the requisite independence from language. Gauker's alternative is to show that much of cognition consists in thinking by means of mental imagery, without the help of concepts, and that language is a tool by which interlocutors coordinate their actions in pursuit of shared goals. Imagistic cognition supports the acquisition and use of this tool, and when the use of this tool is internalized, it becomes the very medium of conceptual thought.

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Christopher Gauker is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. He works in both the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. His prior books include Words without Meaning (2003) and Conditionals in Context (2005).

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Editorial
OUP Oxford
Año de publicación
2011
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0199599467
ISBN 13 
9780199599462
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Número de páginas
316
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ISBN 10:  019968474X ISBN 13:  9780199684748
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