How History Made the Mind : The Cultural Origins of Objective Thinking
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0812695364
ISBN-13
9780812695366
Publisher
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Imprint
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 8th, 2004
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
336 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.90 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy of mindHistory of ideasCognition & cognitive psychology
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This work argues that what we now think of as "reason" or "objective thinking" is not a natural product of the existence of an enlarged brain. 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.
This book argues that “reason,” or “objective thinking,” is not a natural product of an enlarged brain or of innate biological tendencies, but a way of learning that contradicts the natural characteristics of being an animal, a mammal, and a primate. Author David Martel Johnson shows how the concept of objective thinking was incubated in Homeric Greece and eventually canonized as truth. Challenging and thoughtful, this book eloquently questions conventional wisdom in the contemporary study of the mind and includes an extended examination of the work of Julian Jaynes.
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