Rational Thought And Imagination Pensée Rationnelle Et Imagination

Author : Pierre Petiot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
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Release : 2022-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 1471753646

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Rational Thought and Imagination - Pensée Rationnelle Et Imagination by Pierre Petiot Pdf

Etymologically, "rational" derives from the Latin "ratio", relating to calculation. The word calculation recalls an ancient practice of handling small pebbles. Rational thought is a thought that calculates. A computer rationally performs all the calculations one wants - logical calculations included. Should we think that it thinks? Descartes in Règles pour la Direction de l'Esprit does not think this way. On closer inspection, his Method is rather a way to organize findings of the imagination. Resulting from 3 dreams of Descartes - dreams as rational as all the others - the Method is however not foreign to the principles of the division of labor as deployed in the Dutch industry of the time. Given a goal, the Method will probably achieve it. But where do its goals come from? Genius - that of Descartes included - is an incomparable encounter. It wanders, but it finds, and suddenly revolutionizes entire semantic fields. Like Darwinian pre-adaptations at work in biological evolution, genius creates, in one single move, both the solution and its problem . Imagination does not come from Heavens, but is rooted in Evolution. The work of 3 Nobel Prize winners on the spatial imagination of mice (2014) and two other Nobel Prize winners on adaptive immunity (1972 and 1987) provide an idea of ​​some of the mechanisms implemented by living beings.

Author : Ruth M. J. Byrne
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262261847

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The Rational Imagination by Ruth M. J. Byrne Pdf

The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. This accessible and original monograph explores a central aspect of the imagination, the creation of counterfactual alternatives to reality, and claims that imaginative thoughts are guided by the same principles that underlie rational thoughts. Research has shown that rational thought is more imaginative than cognitive scientists had supposed; in The Rational Imagination, Ruth Byrne argues that imaginative thought is more rational than scientists have imagined. People often create alternatives to reality and imagine how events might have turned out "if only" something had been different. Byrne explores the "fault lines" of reality, the aspects of reality that are more readily changed in imaginative thoughts. She finds that our tendencies to imagine alternatives to actions, controllable events, socially unacceptable actions, causal and enabling relations, and events that come last in a temporal sequence provide clues to the cognitive processes upon which the counterfactual imagination depends. The explanation of these processes, Byrne argues, rests on the idea that imaginative thought and rational thought have much in common.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015034325806

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Cahiers Élisabéthains by Anonim Pdf

Études sur la pré-renaissance et la renaissance anglaises.

Author : Mary Ann Caws
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111559551

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Surrealism and the literary imagination by Mary Ann Caws Pdf

Author : Jeppe Hein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015063675774

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Jeppe Hein by Jeppe Hein Pdf

"Présente une installation de l'artiste danois réalisée pour l'espace 315, qui, sur le thème du labyrinthe, propose au visiteur un parcours sonore interactif.

Author : Laurent Millet,Steve Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110853350

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Theatre of Memory by Laurent Millet,Steve Yates Pdf

Author : Laner Cassar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429845574

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Jung's Technique of Active Imagination and Desoille's Directed Waking Dream Method by Laner Cassar Pdf

Jung's Technique of Active Imagination and Desoille's Directed Waking Dream Method brings together Carl Jung’s active imagination and Robert Desoille’s "rêve éveillé dirigé/directed waking dream" method (RED). It studies the historical development of these approaches in Central Europe in the first half of the 20th century and explores their theoretical similarities and differences, proposing an integrated framework of clinical practice. The book aims to study the wider European context of the 1900s which influenced the development of both Jung’s and Desoille’s methods. This work compares the spatial metaphors of interiority used by both Jung and Desoille to describe the traditional concept of inner psychic space in the waking dreams of Jung’s active imagination and Desoille’s RED. It also attempts a broader theoretical comparison between the procedural aspects of both RED and active imagination by identifying commonalities and divergences between the two approaches. This book is a unique contribution to analytical psychology and will be of great interest for academics, researchers and post-graduate students interested in the use of imagination and mental imagery in analysis, psychotherapy and counselling. The book’s historical focus will be of particular relevance to Jungian and Desoillian scholars since it is the first of its kind to trace the connections between the two schools and it gives a detailed account of Desoille’s early life and his first written works. This book was a Gradiva Award nominee for 2021.

Author : Stuart Brown,Diane Collinson,Robert Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134927968

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Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers by Stuart Brown,Diane Collinson,Robert Wilkinson Pdf

Prestigious board of advisory editors and contributors

Author : Francesca Brittan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107136328

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Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz by Francesca Brittan Pdf

An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.

Author : Roch C. Smith
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438461915

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Gaston Bachelard, Revised and Updated by Roch C. Smith Pdf

Comprehensive overview of the entire spectrum of works by one of twentieth-century France’s most original thinkers. Gaston Bachelard, one of twentieth-century France’s most original thinkers, is known by English-language readers primarily as the author of The Poetics of Space and several other books on the imagination, but he made significant contributions to the philosophy and history of science. In this book, Roch C. Smith provides a comprehensive introduction to Bachelard’s work, demonstrating how his writings on the literary imagination can be better understood in the context of his exploration of how knowledge works in science. After an overview of Bachelard’s writings on the scientific mind as it was transformed by relativity, quantum physics, and modern chemistry, Smith examines Bachelard’s works on the imagination in light of particular intellectual values Bachelard derived from science. His trajectory from science to a specifically literary imagination is traced by recognizing his concern with what science teaches about how we know, and his increasing preoccupation with questions of being when dealing with poetic imagery. Smith also explores the material and dynamic imagination associated with the four elements—fire, water, air, and earth—and the phenomenology of creative imagination in Bachelard’s Poetics of Space, his Poetics of Reverie, and in the fragments of Poetics of Fire.

Author : Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199971664

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The Young Spinoza by Yitzhak Y. Melamed Pdf

This volume attempts to trace the philosophical development of one of the greatest philosophers of all times. It is the first attempt of its kind in English and its timely appearance coincides with the recent increase of interest in Spinoza's philosophy in Anglo-American philosophy.

Author : Stuart Brown,Diane Collinson,Dr Robert Wilkinson,Robert Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134680375

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One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers by Stuart Brown,Diane Collinson,Dr Robert Wilkinson,Robert Wilkinson Pdf

One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers offers biographical information and critical analysis of the life, work and impact of some of the most significant figures in philosophy this century. Taken from the acclaimed Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers, the 100 entries are alphabetically organised, from Adorno to Zhang Binglin, and cover individuals from both continental and analytic philosophy. The entries have an identical four-part structure making it easy to compare and contrast information, comprising: * biographical details * a bibliography of major works * a listing of relevant secondary and critical literature * an appraisal of the philosopher's thoughts and achievements. A separate glossary provides an introduction to the origins, development and main features of major philosophical schools and movements and offers select bibliographies to guide the reader to further research.

Author : Cristina Chimisso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315455358

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Hélène Metzger, Historian and Historiographer of the Sciences by Cristina Chimisso Pdf

Is there something important to learn from the history of science about knowledge and the mind? Do habits and emotions play a significant role in science? To what extent do present concerns and knowledge distort our understanding of past texts and practices? These are crucial questions in current debates, but they are not new. This monograph evaluates the answers to these and other questions that Hélène Metzger (1889-1944) provided. Metzger, who was the leading historian of chemistry of her generation, left us unparalleled reflections on the theory, practice and aims of history writing. Despite her influence on subsequent generations of thinkers, including Thomas Kuhn, this is the first full-length monograph on her. Beginning with an overview of her life, and the challenges faced by a Jewish woman working within academia, the book goes on to discuss the most important themes of her historiography, and her engagement with other disciplines, notably general history, philosophy, ethnology and religious studies. The book also explores both Metzger’s immediate legacy and the relevance of her ideas for a host of current debates in science studies. The Appendices include four of her historiographical papers, translated into English for the first time.

Author : Bruno Latour,Steve Woolgar
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400820412

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Laboratory Life by Bruno Latour,Steve Woolgar Pdf

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science.

Author : John Ralston Saul
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781476782249

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On Equilibrium by John Ralston Saul Pdf

This international bestseller and “intellectual tour de force” (The Montreal Gazette) is both an attack on our weakness for ideologies and a manual for humanist action.