About this title: "The Way We Think is a dazzling tour of the complexities of human imagination. "--George Lakoff, co-author of Philosophy in the Flesh and Where Mathematics Comes From. . In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition --the functions in which the ...
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Edition: First Paperback Printing
Binding: Illustrated Softcover
Publisher: Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780465087860ISBN:0465087868
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. "THE WAY WE THINK is a landmark synthesis that exemplifies this new direction. The theory of conceptual blending is already widely known in research laboratories throughout the world; this book is its definitve statement. Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner argue that all learning and thinking consist of blends of metaphors based on simple bodily experiences. " This book has 440 pages and is illustrated throughout. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2003-03-17
ISBN-13:9780465087860ISBN:0465087868
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780465087860ISBN:0465087868
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780465087853ISBN:046508785X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Clean, tight and unmarked. Pages are smooth and bright with no folds or creases. Minor cover wear. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 464 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 3/1/2003
ISBN-13:9780465087860ISBN:0465087868
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780465087860ISBN:0465087868
Description: New. The Way We Think is a dazzling tour of the complexities of human imagination. --George Lakoff, co-author of Philosophy in the Flesh and Where Mathematics Comes From. read more
"Kind of poorly written in terms of organization and sense of purpose. Too many examples and too little focus. So far I've learned that imagination, creativity, and just plain thinking rely on conceptual blending -- mapping aspects of the logic and structure of two different conceptual domains onto each other to form a third, new domain, distinct from the aspects of the two from which it is based. 89 pages to tell me that."
"I was hugely disappointed by this book. One of the authors is Mark Turner, who had written an earlier seminal book on how the mind works, The Literary Mind. The current book promised to revolutionize the way we look at our minds, our thinking, and our behavior. And yet this lengthy tome has only one insight: that we think with metaphors. The authors call it 'blending' but it's essentially metaphor. The idea is that we're remarkable because we can think or say something like, "I've got nothing" where we 'blend' the concept of having something with the concept of nothing. Nothing becomes a 'thing' if you see what I mean. That's it. The authors argue that this kind of blending is central to all our thinking, and they argue this point at enormous length. This book should have been a brief article in some linguistic journal. A tragic waste of trees."
""The way we think is not the way we think we think." Fascinating but dense; I returned this book to the library after getting about halfway through it."
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