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1 online resource |
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Value inquiry book series. Cognitive science ; volume 375 |
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Value inquiry book series. Cognitive science ; v. 375.
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| Contents |
The natural and artificial body in Cartesian philosophy -- Hobbes and the citizens of the realm of truth -- Locke : combining ideas with a little help from words -- Leibniz, Wolff, and symbolic cognition in the German tradition -- Daniel Defoe and the wild boy -- Hume and the artificial in human understanding -- Condillac and Diderot on the role of artificial signs in cognition -- La Mettrie : man as an artefact -- The nature of morality : Diderot, Helvétius and Rousseau -- Maupertuis and the debates in the Berlin Academy -- Herder : from the language of a silent loner to human perfection -- Hamann and the primacy of language and tradition -- The idéologues : the semiotics and physiology of culture -- The divine origins of language -- Back to the institutions of nature : Gall and Spurzheim -- Humboldt : language and the creation of national character -- G.H. Lewes and symbolic thought -- Conclusions : from the institutions of nature to history and culture |
| Summary |
"This volume describes how the significance of language and culture in forming human cognition has been understood from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
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Language and languages -- Philosophy -- History
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Language and culture -- History
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Cognition and culture -- History
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Philosophy, Modern.
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Cognition and culture
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Language and culture
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Language and languages -- Philosophy
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Philosophy, Modern
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021063046 |
| ISBN |
9789004507241 |
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9004507248 |
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