Cognition and the Arts
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Cognition and the Arts

From Naturalized Aesthetics to the Cognitive Humanities

  1. 196 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cognition and the Arts

From Naturalized Aesthetics to the Cognitive Humanities

About this book

How does the mind lend itself to artistic creation and appreciation? How should we study minds and arts in ways that transform our understanding of both? This book examines the concepts of art and cognition from the complementary perspectives of philosophy, the empirical sciences, and the humanities. Central chapters combine examples of visual art, music, literature, and film with the properties of cognition that they illuminate, including 4E cognition, predictive processing, and theories of affect and emotion. These aspects of cognition are undergoing theoretical shifts that complicate established understandings of the mind and its encounter with the arts. As the book takes stock of recent developments in aesthetics that have incorporated empirical findings (Naturalized Aesthetics), it also envisions a new generation of cognitive science with robust ties to history and literature (the Cognitive Humanities). In this way, Cognition and the Arts can be seen as a model of interdisciplinary scholarship.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Imprints page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Prologue
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Chapter 1 Conceptualizing Cognition and the Arts
  12. Chapter 2 Embodiment and Cognitive Extension in Art and Music
  13. Chapter 3 The Predictive Mind in Literature
  14. Chapter 4 The Affective Mind and Cinematic Expression
  15. Chapter 5 Historicizing Cognition and the Arts
  16. Epilogue
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index