Words and Images
An Essay on the Origin of Ideas
by Christopher Gauker
302 pages· 2011· ISBN 9780199599462
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For centuries philosophers have attempted to derive concepts from perceptual representations but have failed to explain how the mind generates the building blocks of thought. Gauker addresses this problem in a new account of imagistic cognition. He shows that much of cognition occurs by means of mental imagery, without the help of concepts.
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