Wax Tablets of the Mind

2003-09-02 History

Author : Jocelyn Penny Small
Release : 2003-09-02
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Wax Tablets of the Mind by : Jocelyn Penny Small

Download or read book Wax Tablets of the Mind written by Jocelyn Penny Small. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jocelyn Small's erudite volume represents a timely insight into the topical areas of literacy and memory, and provides a controversial and challenging analysis of the cognitive processes and their modes of display and retrieval.

Wax Tablets of the Mind

2003-09-02 History

Author : Jocelyn Penny Small
Release : 2003-09-02
Genre : History
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Download or read book Wax Tablets of the Mind written by Jocelyn Penny Small. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the author argues that literacy is a complex combination of various skills, not just the ability to read and write: the technology of writing, the encoding and decoding of text symbols, the interpretation of meaning, the retrieval and display systems which organize how meaning is stored and memory. The book explores the relationship between literacy, orality and memory in classical antiquity, not only from the point of view of antiquity, but also from that of modern cognitive psychology. It examines the contemporary as well as the ancient debate about how the writing tools we possess interact and affect the product, why they should do so and how the tasks required of memory change and develop with literacy's increasing output and evoking technologies.

Greek Memories

2019-01-24 Literary Collections

Author : Luca Castagnoli
Release : 2019-01-24
Genre : Literary Collections
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Download or read book Greek Memories written by Luca Castagnoli. This book was released on 2019-01-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory in the Greek world, from the archaic period to Late Antiquity, across all the main literary genres, and to trace some fundamental changes in these theories and practices. It explores the interaction and development of different 'disciplinary' approaches to memory in Ancient Greece, which will enable a fuller and deeper understanding of the whole phenomenon, and of its specific manifestations. This collection of papers contributes to enriching the current scholarly discussion by refocusing it on the question of how various theories and practices of memory, recollection, and forgetting play themselves out in specific texts and authors from Ancient Greece, within a wide chronological span (from the Homeric poems to Plotinus), and across a broad range of genres and disciplines (epic and lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, historiography, philosophy and scientific prose treatises).

Metaphors of Memory

2000-12-07 History

Author : D. Draaisma
Release : 2000-12-07
Genre : History
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Download or read book Metaphors of Memory written by D. Draaisma. This book was released on 2000-12-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000, this book explores the metaphors used by philosophers and psychologists to understand memory over the centuries.

How History Made the Mind

2003 Philosophy

Author : David Martel Johnson
Release : 2003
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 366/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book How History Made the Mind written by David Martel Johnson. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How History Made the Mind, David Martel Johnson argues that what we now think of as "reason" or "objective thinking" is not a natural product of the existence of an enlarged brain or culmination of innate biological tendencies. Rather, it is a way of learning to use the brain that runs counter to the natural characteristics involved in being an animal, a mammal, and a primate. Johnson defends his theory of mind as a cultural artifact against objections, and uses it to question a number of currently fashionable positions in philosophy of mind, known theories of Julian Jaynes, which Johnson argues go too far in the direction of emphasizing the dissimilarities between ancient and modern ways of thinking.

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