The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity

by Mark Turner

All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, "irrepressibly artful minds." Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioral singularities--science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use, decorative dress, dance, culture, art--that seems to indicate a mysterious and unexplained discontinuity between us and all other living things. This brute fact gives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195306368
• ISBN13: 9780195306361
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.3" x 6.5"