The Human Mind through the Lens of Language

Generative Explorations

Nirmalangshu Mukherji (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-32531-9 (ISBN)

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Most living forms in nature display various cognitive abilities in their behaviour. However, except for humans, no other animal builds fires and wheels, navigates with maps and tells stories to other conspecifics. We can witness this unique feature of the human mind in almost everything humans do, such as painting, singing and cooking; there is an underlying sense of unity in the generative part of these systems despite wide differences in what they are about.

This book introduces, defends and develops a novel philosophical approach to the study of the generative mind. Nirmalangshu Mukherji argues for a single, species-specific generative principle that accounts for the human ability to combine symbolic forms without bound in each domain that falls under the generative mind.

Nirmalangshu Mukherji is a former Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delhi, India. He was also the National Visiting Professor for the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, India.

List of Figures
Preface
Introduction: Setting the Stage

PART I: The Background
1. Cartesian Perspective on the Mind
2. The Mind in Cognitive Science

PART II: The Proposal
3. Language as Mirror of the Mind
4. Redesigning Proto
5. Merge and Linguistic Specificity
6. No Merge for Animals
7. Merge is (perhaps) All We Need
8. Implications

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.01.2024
Zusatzinfo	4 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
ISBN-10	1-350-32531-7 / 1350325317
ISBN-13	978-1-350-32531-9 / 9781350325319
Zustand	Neuware