Language, Culture and Cognition from Descartes to Lewes /

Language, Culture and Cognition from Descartes to Lewes /

"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"--

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Main Author: Kaitaro, Timo (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 375.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2022.

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Cognition and culture > History.
Language and culture > History.
Language and languages > Philosophy > History.
Philosophy, Modern.

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Call Number: P101

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Table of 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.