The Origin of Ideas

The Origin of Ideas: Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark

by Turner, Mark

Type Book
Rate 0.0 /5

What makes human beings so innovative, so adept at rapid, creative thinking? Where do new ideas come from, and once we have them, how can we carry them mentally into new situations? What allows our thinking to range easily over time, space, causation, and agency-so easily that we take this truly remarkable ability for granted? In The Origin of Ideas, Mark Turner offers a provocative new theory to answer these and many other questions. While other species do what we cannot-fly, run amazingly fas…

Read More ↓
Details
Files
Reviews
Download

Title Statements

  • Full title :The Origin of Ideas : Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark.

Summary

What makes human beings so innovative, so adept at rapid, creative thinking? Where do new ideas come from, and once we have them, how can we carry them mentally into new situations? What allows our thinking to range easily over time, space, causation, and agency-so easily that we take this truly remarkable ability for granted? In The Origin of Ideas, Mark Turner offers a provocative new theory to answer these and many other questions. While other species do what we cannot-fly, run amazingly fast, see in the dark-only humanbeings can innovate so rapidly and widely. Turner argues that this dist.

Read More ↓

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 ressource en ligne (314 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0199988838, 9780199988839
  • oclc:on1239731917
  • LC Classification:BF408
  • Dewey Decimal:153.2

Table of Contents

Cover; The Origin Of Ideas; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Human Spark; 2 Catch a Fire; 3 The Idea of You; 4 The Idea of I; 5 Forbidden Ideas; 6 Artful Ideas; 7 Vast Ideas; 8 Tight Ideas; 9 Recurring Ideas; 10 Future Ideas; Appendix The Academic Workbench; Notes; References;Index.

Read More ↓

Subjects

Creative ability Créativité creativity e-books Idea (Philosophy) Idée (Philosophie) Livres numériques

Writers

Turner, Mark

Rate & Review

0.0/5
(0 people Voted)

No reviews yet. Be the first to rate this work.

Files & Downloads

  • The origin of ideas : blending, creativity, and t…

    PDF · 2.9 MB · updated
    Login →

  • The origin of ideas : blending, creativity, and t…

    PDF · 2.9 MB · updated
    Login →
Log in to request a copy