
- 280 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Introduction: Setting the stage
- Part I: The background
- Chapter 1: The Cartesian perspective on the mind
- Chapter 2: The mind in cognitive science
- Part II: The proposal
- Chapter 3: Language as mirror of the mind
- Chapter 4: Redesigning Proto
- Chapter 5: Merge and linguistic specificity
- Chapter 6: No Merge for animals
- Chapter 7: Merge is (perhaps) all we need
- Chapter 8: Implications
- Notes
- References
- Index