Mark Turner

Origin of Ideas

Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Humans are unique among all other species in having one cognitive attribute-the ability, almost without conscious effort, to engage in blending. This is the first book that brings the theory of blending to a wide audience and shows how blending is at the heart of the origin of ideas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780190263157
• ISBN-10: 0190263156
• Artikelnr.: 43042678

Autorenporträt

Mark Turner, Ph.D., is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. He is the founding director of the Cognitive Science Network and co-director of the Red Hen Lab. His most recent book publications are Ten Lectures on Mind and Language and two edited volumes, The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and The Riddle of Human Creativity, from Oxford University Press, and Meaning, Form, & Body, edited with Fey Parrill and Vera Tobin, published by the Center for the Study of Language and Information. His other books and articles include Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We Think about Politics, Economics, Law, and Society, The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language, Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science, and Death is the Mother of Beauty.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Where Do Ideas Come From?
2. Who Are You?
3. Who Am I?
4. Forbidden Fruit
5. The Artful Mind
6. The Sweep of Thought
7. Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe
8. Round and Round and Round We Go
9. Final Questions
References
Index