Self, Logic, and Figurative Thinking / / Harwood Fisher.
Harwood Fisher argues against neuroscientific and cognitive scientific explanations of mental states, for they fail to account for the gaps between actions in the brain, cognitive operations, linguistic mapping, and an individual's account of experience. Fisher probes a rich array of thought fr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Major Terms, Their Classification, and Their Relation to the Book's Objective
- 1. The Problem of Analogous Forms
- 2. Natural Logic, Categories, and the Individual
- 3. Shift to Individual Categories, Dynamics, and a Psychological Look at Identity
- 4. Form Versus Function
- 5. What Is the Difference Between the Logic Governing a Figure of Speech and the Logic That Is Immature or Unconscious?
- 6. What Are the Role and Function of the Self Vis-à-vis Consciousness?
- 7. Development in the Logic from Immature to Mature Modes
- 8. Pathological and Defensive Logical Forms
- 9. The "I," Identity, and the Part-Whole Resolutions
- 10. The "I," Entropy, and the Trope
- Notes
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index