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Author : José Luis Bermúdez
Release : 2007
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 600/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thinking Without Words by : José Luis Bermúdez
Download or read book Thinking Without Words written by José Luis Bermúdez. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Oxford University Press pbk edition.
Author : Russell T. Hurlburt
Release : 2011-06-27
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 602/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Investigating Pristine Inner Experience by : Russell T. Hurlburt
Download or read book Investigating Pristine Inner Experience written by Russell T. Hurlburt. This book was released on 2011-06-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You live your entire waking life immersed in your inner experiences (thoughts, feelings, sensations and so on) – private phenomena created by you, just for you, your own way. Despite their intimacy and ubiquity, you probably do not know the characteristics of your own inner phenomena; neither does psychology or consciousness science. Investigating Pristine Inner Experience explores how to apprehend inner experience in high fidelity. This book will transform your view of your own inner experience, awaken you to experiential differences between people and thereby reframe your thinking about psychology and consciousness science, which banned the study of inner experience for most of a century and yet continued to recognize its fundamental importance. The author, a pioneer in using beepers to explore inner experience, draws on his 35 years of studies to provide fascinating and provocative views of everyday inner experience and experience in bulimia, adolescence, the elderly, schizophrenia, Tourette's syndrome, virtuosity and more.
Author : Roger B. Nelsen
Release : 1993
Genre : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 007/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Proofs Without Words by : Roger B. Nelsen
Download or read book Proofs Without Words written by Roger B. Nelsen. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Tversky
Release : 2019-05-21
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 078/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mind in Motion by : Barbara Tversky
Download or read book Mind in Motion written by Barbara Tversky. This book was released on 2019-05-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought When we try to think about how we think, we can't help but think of words. Indeed, some have called language the stuff of thought. But pictures are remembered far better than words, and describing faces, scenes, and events defies words. Anytime you take a shortcut or play chess or basketball or rearrange your furniture in your mind, you've done something remarkable: abstract thinking without words. In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas. Spatial thinking even underlies the structure and meaning of language: why we say we push ideas forward or tear them apart, why we're feeling up or have grown far apart. Like Thinking, Fast and Slow before it, Mind in Motion gives us a new way to think about how--and where--thinking takes place.
Author : Jose Luis Bermudez
Release : 2007-10-17
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 932/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thinking Without Words by : Jose Luis Bermudez
Download or read book Thinking Without Words written by Jose Luis Bermudez. This book was released on 2007-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought. Many scientific disciplines treat non-linguistic creatures as thinkers, explaining their behavior in terms of their thoughts about themselves and about the environment. But this theorizing has proceeded without any clear account of the types of thinking available to non-linguistic creatures. One consequence of this is that ascriptions of thoughts to non-linguistic creatures have frequently been held to be metaphorical and not to be taken at face value. Bermúdez offers a conceptual framework for treating human infants and non-human animals as genuine thinkers. Whereas existing discussions of thought at the non-linguistic level have concentrated on how such thoughts might be physically realized, Bermúdez approaches the problem by considering what is required in explaining behavior in psychological terms. In developing a positive account of non-linguistic thought he shows how the experimental tools used by developmental psychologists and students of animal behavior can be used to give a precise account of the way in which a human infant or non-human animal is representing the world. Much of the book is devoted to exploring the differences between thinking without words and language-based thinking. Bermúdez argues that there are clear limits to the expressive power of non-linguistic thought. Nonetheless, he identifies primitive analogues at the non-linguistic level that can be used to explain sophisticated non-linguistic behaviors. Thinking Without Words is the first full-length philosophical study of this important topic. It is written with an interdisciplinary readership in mind and will appeal to philosophers, psychologists, and students of animal behavior.
