Cognitive Variations (Paperback)

Geoffrey Lloyd

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009

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Paperback. Sir Geoffrey Lloyd presents a cross-disciplinary study of the problems posed by the unity and diversity of the human mind. On the one hand, as humans we all share broadly the same anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and certain psychological capabilities - the capacity to learn a language, for instance. On the other, different individuals and groups have very different talents, tastes, and beliefs, for instance about how they see themselves, other humans and theworld around them. These issues are highly charged, for any denial of psychic unity savours of racism, while many assertions of psychic diversity raise the spectres of arbitrary relativism, theincommensurability of beliefs systems and their mutual unintelligibility.Lloyd surveys a fascinating range of subjects, examining where different types of arguments, scientific, philosophical, anthropological and historical can take us. He discusses colour perception, spatial cognition, animal and plant taxonomy, the emotions, ideas of health and well-being, concepts of the self, agency and causation, varying perceptions of the distinction between nature and culture, andreasoning itself. To avoid the pitfalls of misleading dichotomies (especially between cross-cultural universalism and cultural relativism) he pays due attention to the multidimensionality of thephenomena to be apprehended and to the diversity of manners, or styles, of apprehending them. The weight to be given to different factors, physical, biological, psychological, cultural, ideological, varies as between different subject-areas and sometimes even within a single area. He uses recent work in social anthropology, linguistics, cognitive science, neurophysiology, and the history of ideas to redefine the problems and clarify how our evident psychic diversity can be reconciled with ourshared humanity. G. E. R. Lloyd presents a cross-disciplinary exploration of the unity and diversity of the human mind. He examines cultural variations in ideas of colour, emotion, health, the self, agency and causation, reasoning, and other keystones of our thought. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Titolo
Cognitive Variations (Paperback)
Autore
Geoffrey Lloyd
Editore
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Anno di pubblicazione
2009
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0199566259
ISBN 13
9780199566259

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