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, 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 how do they operate? These are the questions that occup…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-534563-6
- EAN: 9780195345636
- Produktnummer: 13918374
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'409 KB
- Abbildungen: 51 halftones/music examples
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