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Mental Leaps

Analogy in Creative Thought
Buch | Hardcover
334 Seiten
1994
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-08233-4 (ISBN)
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Analogy - recalling familiar past situations to deal with novel ones - can provide invaluable creative insights, but it can also lead to dangerous errors. This text describes how analogy works and how it can be used most effectively, and its implications for cognitive science in general.
Analogy - recalling familiar past situations to deal with novel ones - is a mental tool that everyone uses. Analogy can provide invaluable creative insights, but it can also lead to dangerous errors. In "Mental Leaps" two leading cognitive scientists show how analogy works and how it can be used most effectively. Keith Holyoak and Paul Thagard provide a unified, comprehensive account of the diverse operations and applications of analogy, including problem solving, decision making, explanation, and communication. Holyoak and Thagard present their own theory of analogy, considering its implications for cognitive science in general, and survey examples from many other domains. These include animal cognition, developmental and social psychology, political science, philosophy, history of science, anthropology, and literature. Understanding how we draw analogies is important for people interested in the evolution of thinking in animals and in children; for those whose focus is on either creative thinking or errors of everyday reasoning; for those concerned with how decisions are made in law, business and politics; and for those striving to improve education.
"Mental Leaps" covers all of this ground, emphasizing the principles that govern the use of analogy and keeping technical matters to a minimum.

Part 1 First steps: a bird's backyard; analogic; from Socrates to Velcro and Vietnam; indirect communication; ripples in the air; creative connections; overview. Part 2 Breaking loose: funes in chains; from reacting to thinking; similarity; structure; models; purpose and cause; summary. Part 3 The analogical ape: sameness; what Sarah thinks; how thought evolved; the analogies of apes; the invention of problems; hitting the wall; summary. Part 4 The analogical child: Lori's magic carpet; toward system mapping; first relations; early relational mapping; personification; the next steps; summary. Part 5 The construction of similarity: making Saddam into Hitler; the tumour and the fortress; selection; mapping; evaluation; learning; summary. Part 6 What is to be done?: Howard's dilemma; coherent decisions; houses and baseball players; courtroom analogies; lessons of the past; no more Vietnams; summary. Part 7 Wondering why: gods like us; Plato's cave; designing the world; other minds; intuition pumps; Asian analogies; summary. Part 8 The analogical scientist: great scientific analogies; purposes; cognitive mechanisms; social sciences; invention and design; lessons; summary. Part 9 The web of culture: the Japanese tea ceremony; Star Trek and the hidden paths; what is metaphor?; the analogical basis; metaphorical extensions; laughter and love; analogy as therapy; making magic; summary. Part 10 The analogical computer: looking backward; the computational mind; parallel constraint satisfaction; mapping; retrieval; the competition; the future of analogy.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.2.1995
Zusatzinfo 31
Verlagsort Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Logik
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10 0-262-08233-0 / 0262082330
ISBN-13 978-0-262-08233-4 / 9780262082334
Zustand Neuware
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