紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: Monograph/item
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杜威分類號: |
153.4/209 |
書名/作者: |
Out of our minds : what we think and how we came to think it // Felipe Fernández-Armesto. |
其他題名: |
What we think and how we came to think it |
作者: |
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, |
面頁冊數: |
1 online resource (482 p.) |
標題: |
Thought and thinking - History. |
標題: |
Cognition and culture - History. |
標題: |
Intellectual life - History. |
標題: |
Civilization - History. |
ISBN: |
0520974360 |
ISBN: |
9780520331075 |
ISBN: |
9780520974364 |
書目註: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-452) and index. |
摘要、提要註: |
"To imagine--to see what is not there--is the startling ability that has fueled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the picture in our minds. Traversing the realms of science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy, and history, Felipe Fernández-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting tales of our imaginative leaps--from the first Homo sapiens to the present day. Through groundbreaking insights in cognitive science, Fernández-Armesto explores how and why we have ideas in the first place, providing a tantalizing glimpse into who we are and what we might yet accomplish. Unearthing historical evidence, he begins by reconstructing the thoughts of our Paleolithic ancestors to reveal the subtlety and profundity of the thinking of early humans. A masterful paean to the human imagination from a wonderfully elegant thinker, Out of Our Minds shows that bad ideas are often more influential than good ones; that the oldest recoverable thoughts include some of the best; that ideas of Western origin often issued from exchanges with the wider world; and that the pace of innovative thinking is under threat." |
電子資源: |
https://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/UCPB0001964.html |