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- catalog abstract "In How History Made the Mind, David Martel Johnson argues that what we now think of as "reason" or "objective thinking" is not a natural product of the existence of an enlarged brain or culmination of innate biological tendencies. Rather, it is a way of learning to use the brain that runs counter to the natural characteristics involved in being an animal, a mammal, and a primate. Johnson defends his theory of mind as a cultural artifact against objections, and uses it to question a number of currently fashionable positions in philosophy of mind, know theories of Julian Jaynes, which Johnson argues go too far in the direction of emphasizing the dissimilarities between ancient and modern ways of thinking.".
- catalog contributor b13090321.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description "A short, speculative history of reason -- Barbarian simplicity -- Lingua franca: reason's connection with commercialism and cosmopolitanism -- Reason's connection with indirect practicality -- The goal of science is to discover truth, and "chauvinism" sometimes is true -- How reason made the world a dangerous place.".
- catalog description "In How History Made the Mind, David Martel Johnson argues that what we now think of as "reason" or "objective thinking" is not a natural product of the existence of an enlarged brain or culmination of innate biological tendencies. Rather, it is a way of learning to use the brain that runs counter to the natural characteristics involved in being an animal, a mammal, and a primate. Johnson defends his theory of mind as a cultural artifact against objections, and uses it to question a number of currently fashionable positions in philosophy of mind, know theories of Julian Jaynes, which Johnson argues go too far in the direction of emphasizing the dissimilarities between ancient and modern ways of thinking.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-219) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Humans are cultural as well as physical animals -- Is there a "preferred explanatory direction" between mind and brain? -- The nature of mind, and why the Upper Paleolithic revolution occurred so late in time -- What this book is about.".
- catalog description "Mind as a product of the Greek revolution -- Did the Hebrews prefigure what the pre-classical Greeks introduced later? -- The Greeks' intellectual version of antinaturalism, expressed in their new interpretation of "childishness" -- Mind, belief, and desire presuppose our conception of truth, and thus, strictly speaking, are limited to the Western tradition alone -- Frankfort, Jaynes, and the concept of infinity.".
- catalog description "Reintroducing the mind into nature -- Finishing the job: mind in the wide as well as narrow sense -- A platonic conception of the universe, and species' "adaptive tricks" -- (Wide) mind as a lately discovered ecological niche -- Reason as a still more recently discovered way of filling the mind-niche.".
- catalog description "Two forms of naturalism: ancient and modern -- Early conceptions of mind---an affirmation of disembodiment? -- The path that led to modern eliminativism: from many, to one, to none -- Eliminativism revisited, then reversed -- Although the mind is natural and physical in terms of its ontology, from the viewpoint of society and culture, it is not part of nature -- The place of reason in history.".
- catalog extent "xi, 227 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0812695364 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago, Ill. : Open Court,".
- catalog subject "128/.2 22".
- catalog subject "BD161 .J652 2003".
- catalog subject "Knowledge, Theory of.".
- catalog subject "Objectivity.".
- catalog subject "Philosophical anthropology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A short, speculative history of reason -- Barbarian simplicity -- Lingua franca: reason's connection with commercialism and cosmopolitanism -- Reason's connection with indirect practicality -- The goal of science is to discover truth, and "chauvinism" sometimes is true -- How reason made the world a dangerous place.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Humans are cultural as well as physical animals -- Is there a "preferred explanatory direction" between mind and brain? -- The nature of mind, and why the Upper Paleolithic revolution occurred so late in time -- What this book is about.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Mind as a product of the Greek revolution -- Did the Hebrews prefigure what the pre-classical Greeks introduced later? -- The Greeks' intellectual version of antinaturalism, expressed in their new interpretation of "childishness" -- Mind, belief, and desire presuppose our conception of truth, and thus, strictly speaking, are limited to the Western tradition alone -- Frankfort, Jaynes, and the concept of infinity.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Reintroducing the mind into nature -- Finishing the job: mind in the wide as well as narrow sense -- A platonic conception of the universe, and species' "adaptive tricks" -- (Wide) mind as a lately discovered ecological niche -- Reason as a still more recently discovered way of filling the mind-niche.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Two forms of naturalism: ancient and modern -- Early conceptions of mind---an affirmation of disembodiment? -- The path that led to modern eliminativism: from many, to one, to none -- Eliminativism revisited, then reversed -- Although the mind is natural and physical in terms of its ontology, from the viewpoint of society and culture, it is not part of nature -- The place of reason in history.".
- catalog title "How history made the mind : the cultural origins of objective thinking / David Martel Johnson.".
- catalog type "text".