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Bezig met laden... Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think Itdoor Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is an excellent, opinionated survey of the history of ideas, beginning with a brief review of neuroscience, and continuing through prehistoric thought, as well as it can be known from archeology, and adding from there through thoughts of agriculturalists, urban dwellers, and through the modern age. In the early stages, the ideas are ordered in a progressively more complex sequence, but that breaks down as history proceeds. Fernandez-Armesto makes valiant attempts to include Chinese, Islamic and Indian thought. He is opinionated and not afraid to state his opinions, making critical remarks about existentialism, the student rebellions of the 1960's, communism, and the current state of free inquiry in universities. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"A stimulating history of how the imagination interacted with its sibling psychological faculties--emotion, perception and reason--to shape the history of human mental life."--The Wall Street Journal To imagine--to see what is not there--is the startling ability that has fueled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the picture in our minds. Traversing the realms of science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy, and history, Felipe Fernández-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting tales of our imaginative leaps--from the first Homo sapiens to the present day. Through groundbreaking insights in cognitive science, Fernández-Armesto explores how and why we have ideas in the first place, providing a tantalizing glimpse into who we are and what we might yet accomplish. Unearthing historical evidence, he begins by reconstructing the thoughts of our Paleolithic ancestors to reveal the subtlety and profundity of the thinking of early humans. A masterful paean to the human imagination from a wonderfully elegant thinker, Out of Our Minds shows that bad ideas are often more influential than good ones; that the oldest recoverable thoughts include some of the best; that ideas of Western origin often issued from exchanges with the wider world; and that the pace of innovative thinking is under threat. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)153.4209Philosophy and Psychology Psychology Cognition And Memory Thought, thinking, reasoning, intuition, value, judgment Critical ThinkingLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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