Rationality and the Literate Mind
This book re-examines the old debate about the relationship between rationality and literacy. Does writing restructure consciousness? Do preliterate societies have a different mind-set from literate societies? Is reason built in to the way we think? How is literacy related to numeracy? Is the logical form that Western philosophers recognize anything more than an extrapolation from the structure of the written sentence? Is logic, as developed formally in Western education, intrinsically beyond the reach of the preliterate mind? What light, if any, do the findings of contemporary neuroscience throw on such issues? Roy Harris challenges the rece…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-135-83876-8
- EAN: 9781135838768
- Produktnummer: 18431801
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 206 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'768 KB
Über den Autor
Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall.
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