The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity - Hardcover

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9780195306361: The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity
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ISBN 10: 0195306368 ISBN 13: 9780195306361
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, "irrepressibly artful minds." Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioral singularities--science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use, decorative dress, dance, culture, art--that seems to indicate a mysterious and unexplained discontinuity between us and all other living things. This brute fact gives rise to some tantalizing questions: How did the artful mind emerge? What are the basic mental operations that make art possible for us now, and how do they operate? These are the questions that occupy the distinguished contributors to this volume, which emerged from a year-long Getty-funded research project hosted by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. These scholars bring to bear a range of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspectives on the relationship between art (broadly conceived), the mind, and the brain. Together they hope to provide directions for a new field of research that can play a significant role in answering the great riddle of human singularity.

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About the Author

Mark Turner is at Case Western Reserve University.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195306368
ISBN 13 
9780195306361
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
336
Editor
Turner Mark
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