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.
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"Until recently, cognitive science has focused on such mental functions as problem solving, grammar, and pattern recognition - the functions, in other words, in which the human mind most resembles a computer. But human beings are more than computers: We invent new meanings, make…
How do generals -- and business strategists -- outwit their opponents? Where do designers and artists get their inspirations from? How can all of us 'pump up the originality' and steer our thinking off the standard, well-worn tracks? Everyone, as the French philosopher René Desc…
How do generals - and business strategists - outwit their opponents?Where do designers and artists get their inspiration from?How can all of us 'pump up the originality' and steer our thinking off the standard, well-worn tracks?Everyone, as the French philosopher René Descartes …
"In Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, the authors explore what curiosity is and what it can do. Traipsing across the fields of philosophy and neuroscience, literature and network science, they discover that current definitions of curiosity are remarkably limited. Rather th…
"In Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, the authors explore what curiosity is and what it can do. Traipsing across the fields of philosophy and neuroscience, literature and network science, they discover that current definitions of curiosity are remarkably limited. Rather th…
"In Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, the authors explore what curiosity is and what it can do. Traipsing across the fields of philosophy and neuroscience, literature and network science, they discover that current definitions of curiosity are remarkably limited. Rather th…
The psychology of wisdom: an introduction
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"During the 20th century, IQs around the world rose 30 points. That is a huge increase. It represents the difference between someone labeled as average versus borderline intellectually challenged, or between average and borderline intellectually gifted. Yet, this steep rise in I…
The psychology of wisdom: an introduction
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Type: Book
"During the 20th century, IQs around the world rose 30 points. That is a huge increase. It represents the difference between someone labeled as average versus borderline intellectually challenged, or between average and borderline intellectually gifted. Yet, this steep rise in I…
The psychology of wisdom: an introduction
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Type: Book
"During the 20th century, IQs around the world rose 30 points. That is a huge increase. It represents the difference between someone labeled as average versus borderline intellectually challenged, or between average and borderline intellectually gifted. Yet, this steep rise in I…
In this book, Christopher Baber uses embodied cognition as a lens through which to view both how designers engage in creative practices and how people use designed artifacts. This view of cognition as enactive, embedded, situated, or distributed, without recourse to internal rep…
"This book sets the agenda for how we think about human activity that arises from embedding manipulated information in our action and embodied cognition"--