Words and images : an essay on the origin of ideas /

For centuries philosophers have attempted to derive concepts from perceptual representations but have failed to explain how the mind generates the building blocks of thought. Gauker addresses this problem in a new account of imagistic cognition. He shows that much of cognition occurs by means of men...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gauker, Christopher
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:	Oxford scholarship online. Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module.
Subjects:	Comprehension (Theory of knowledge) Idea (Philosophy) Compréhension (Théorie de la connaissance) Idée (Philosophie) PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology. Philosophy. Philosophy & Religion. Speculative Philosophy. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Defining the question
The Lockean theory
The Kantian theory
Regions of similarity space
The Sellarsian theory
Imagistic cognition
Similarity without concepts
Cooperation by means of words
Thinking in language.