Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science

by Mark Turner

Overview

The great adventure of modern cognitive science, the discovery of the human mind, will fundamentally revise our concept of what it means to be human. Drawing together the classical conception of the language arts, the Renaissance sense of scientific discovery, and the modern study of the mind, Mark Turner offers a vision of the central role that language and the arts of language can play in that adventure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691001074
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	01/16/1994
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	7.75(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mark Turner is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. His books include Death Is the Mother of Beauty: Mind, Metaphor, Criticism (Chicago).

Editorial Reviews

"The author demonstrates how a new revolution in critical thought demands an understanding of how humans think; this is more than knowing about neurons and synapses, however. A thoughtful book for those of us tired of trying to find the humanity in postmodern criticism."

The Bloomsbury Review

"Works such as [this] form the vanguard of our understanding; from the research front, they signal the presence of new and more fruitful relationships between the sciences and rhetorical and literary studies."—-Alan G. Gross, College English

From the Publisher

A philosophically sophisticated work that goes a long way toward an empirically responsible account of the bodily and imaginative bases of concepts, meaning, reasoning, and language.

Review of Metaphysics - Mark L. Johnson

Works such as [this] form the vanguard of our understanding; from the research front, they signal the presence of new and more fruitful relationships between the sciences and rhetorical and literary studies.

College English - Alan G. Gross

A philosophically sophisticated work that goes a long way toward an empirically responsible account of the bodily and imaginative bases of concepts, meaning, reasoning, and language.
— Mark L. Johnson

Review of Metaphysics

Works such as [this] form the vanguard of our understanding; from the research front, they signal the presence of new and more fruitful relationships between the sciences and rhetorical and literary studies.
— Alan G. Gross

College English