Language, Culture and Cognition from Descartes to Lewes

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50723-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 375, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Cognitive Science

This volume describes how the significance of language and culture in forming human cognition has been understood from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. It discusses thinkers who realized that the human mind—and brain—is in fact a cultural artefact and that language is not merely a means to communicate thoughts, but also to form them in the first place. It presents a novel perspective on the history of philosophy in which the narrative is no longer centered on the question of whether knowledge results from experience or reason, but whether experience and reason are in fact possible without language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaitaro, Timo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Timo Kaitaro, Ph.D. (1995), is a neuropsychologist and adjunct professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Diderot’s Holism (Peter Lang, 1997) and Le Surréalisme: Pour un réalisme sans rivage (L’Harmattan, 2008).