Rationality and the Literate Mind (e-bog) af Harris, Roy
Harris, Roy (forfatter)

Rationality and the Literate Mind e-bog

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This book re-examines the old debate about the relationship between rationality and literacy. Does writing &quote;restructure consciousness?&quote; Do preliterate societies have a different &quote;mind-set&quote; from literate societies? Is reason &quote;built in&quote; to the way we think? How is literacy related to numeracy? Is the &quote;logical form&quote; that Western philosophers recogniz...
E-bog 473,39 DKK
Forfattere Harris, Roy (forfatter)
Forlag Routledge
Udgivet 13 januar 2009
Længde 190 sider
Genrer Language: reference and general
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781135838768
This book re-examines the old debate about the relationship between rationality and literacy. Does writing "e;restructure consciousness?"e; Do preliterate societies have a different "e;mind-set"e; from literate societies? Is reason "e;built in"e; to the way we think? How is literacy related to numeracy? Is the "e;logical form"e; that Western philosophers recognize anything more than an extrapolation from the structure of the written sentence? Is logic, as developed formally in Western education, intrinsically beyond the reach of the preliterate mind? What light, if any, do the findings of contemporary neuroscience throw on such issues? Roy Harris challenges the received mainstream opinion that reason is an intrinsic property of the human mind, and argues that the whole Western conception of rational thought, from Classical Greece down to modern symbolic logic, is a by-product of the way literacy developed in European cultures.