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- 008 190829s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng
- 020 __ |a 9780198854593 |q (hardback)
- 020 __ |z 9780192596802 |q (epub)
- 040 __ |a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC
- 050 _4 |a BF431 |b .L56 2020
- 100 1_ |a Lloyd, G.E.R, |e author.
- 245 10 |a Intelligence and intelligibility : |b cross-cultural studies of human cognitive experience / |c G.E.R Lloyd.
- 264 _1 |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2020.
- 300 __ |a 176 pages ; |c 23 cm
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 505 0_ |a Introduction -- 1: Where Does the Problem Come from? -- 2: Modes of Discourse and the Pragmatics of Communication -- 3: Magic: Efficacy and Felicity -- 4: The Argument from Language -- 5: The Argument from Sociability -- 6: Turning the Tables: Obstacles to Mutual Intelligibility -- 7: The Evolutionary Issues -- 8: Test Case 1: Mathematics -- 9: Test Case 2: Religion -- 10: Test Case 3: Law -- 11: Test Case 4: Aesthetics: Art and Music -- Conclusion: Towards More Ecumenical Analyses -- Bibliography -- Index.
- 520 __ |a "This study investigates the tension between two conflicting intuitions, our twin recognitions (1) that all humans share the same basic cognitive capacities and yet (2) their actual manifestations in different individuals and groups differ appreciably. How can we reconcile our sense of what links us all as humans with our recognition of these deep differences? All humans use language and live in social groups, where we have to probe what is distinctive in the experience of humans as opposed to that of other animals and how the former may have evolved from the latter. Moreover the languages we speak and the societies we form differ profoundly, though the conclusion that we are the prisoners of our own particular experience should and can be resisted. The study calls into question the cross-cultural viability both of many of the analytic tools we commonly use (such as the contrast between the literal and the metaphorical, between myth and rational account, and between nature and culture) and of our usual categories for organising human experience and classifying intellectual disciplines, mathematics, religion, law and aesthetics. The end-result is a robust defence of the possibilities of mutual intelligibility while recognising both the diversity in the manifestations of human intelligence and the need to revise our assumptions in order to achieve that understanding"-- |c Provided by publisher.
- 650 _0 |a Intellect |v Cross-cultural studies.