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Harwood Fisher argues against neuroscientific and cognitive scientific explanations of mental states, for they fail to account for the gaps between actions in the brain, cognitive operations, linguistic mapping, and an individual's account of experience. Fisher probes a rich array of thought fr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fisher, Harwood (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]
Temas:
Logic.
Figures of speech.
Self psychology.
Imagination.
Language and languages.
Self-perception.
Thought and thinking.
Logic
Imagination
Language
Self Concept
Thinking
Self Psychology
Psychologie du soi.
Logique.
Langage et langues.
Perception de soi.
Pensée.
logic.
imagination.
thinking.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Major terms, their classification, and their relation to the book's objective
  • The problem of analogous forms
  • Natural logic, categories, and the individual
  • Shift to individual categories, dynamics, and a psychological look at identity
  • Form versus function
  • What is the difference between the logic governing a figure of speech and the logic that is immature or unconscious?
  • What are the role and function of the self vis-à-vis consciousness?
  • Development in the logic from immature to mature modes
  • Pathological and defensive logical forms
  • The "I," identity, and the part-whole resolutions
  • The "I," entropy, and the trope.

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