The artful mind cognitive science and the riddle of human creativity
All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, ""irrepressibly artful minds."" Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioral singularities--science, religion, mathematics, language, advanc...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798100506719 |
| Sumario: | All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, ""irrepressibly artful minds."" Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioral singularities--science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use, decorative dress, dance, culture, art--that seems to indicate a mysterious and unexplained discontinuity between us and all other living things. This brute fact gives rise to some tantalizing questions: How did the artful mind emerge? What are the basic mental operations that make art possible for us now, and h |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (331 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199885596 9781280846564 9780195345636 9781429438513 |
