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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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2006]
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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 no |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 314 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195345636 0195345630 9780195306361 0195306368 0199851034 9780199851034 9781429438513 1429438517 9786610846566 6610846561 1280846569 9781280846564 |