Book ID: CBB563600617

Intelligence and Intelligibility: Cross-Cultural Studies of Human Cognitive Experience (2020)

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Lloyd, Geoffrey E. R. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 176
Language: English

Across several intellectual disciplines there exists a tension between an appreciation of the cognitive capacities that all humans share and a recognition of the great variety in their manifestations in different individuals and groups. In this book G. E. R. Lloyd examines how, while avoidingthe imposition of prior Western assumptions and concepts, we can reconcile two conflicting intuitions: that all humans share the same basic cognitive capacities and yet their actual manifestations in different individuals and groups differ appreciably. Lloyd investigates the cultural viability ofanalytic tools we commonly use (such as the contrasts between the literal and the metaphorical, between myth and rational account, and between nature and culture themselves) and the categories that we employ to organize human experience (like mathematics, religion, law, and aesthetics). The endresult is a robust defence, within limits, of the possibilities of mutual intelligibility--one which recognizes both the diversity in the manifestations of human intelligence and the need to revise our assumptions in order to achieve that understanding.

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Authors & Contributors
Polger, Thomas W.
Juzda, E
Horton, Dawn Marie
Dunne, Matthew W.
Wilson, Robert A.
Verri, Luca
Concepts
Philosophy of mind
Cognition
Psychology
Science and culture
Philosophy
Intelligence
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century, late
Renaissance
Medieval
21st century
20th century
Places
England
United States
Russia
Greece
China
Paris (France)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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