1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248292603316

Autore

Kaag John <1979->

Titolo

Thinking through the imagination : aesthetics in human cognition / / John Kaag

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8232-5494-1

0-8232-5495-X

0-8232-6151-4

0-8232-5496-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

American Philosophy

Disciplina

111/.85

Soggetti

Imagination (Philosophy)

Aesthetics

Cognition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Cultivation of the Imagination -- 2 Enlightening Thought: Kant and the Imagination -- 3 C. S. Peirce and the Growth of the Imagination -- 4 Abduction: Inference and Instinct -- 5 Imagining Nature -- 6 Ontology and Imagination: Peirce on Necessity and Agency -- 7 The Evolution of the Imagination -- 8 Emergence, Complexity, and Creativity -- 9 Be Imaginative! Suggestion and Imperative -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Use your imagination! The demand is as important as it is confusing. What is the imagination? What is its value? Where does it come from? And where is it going in a time when even the obscene seems overdone and passé? This book takes up these questions and argues for the centrality of imagination in human cognition. It traces the development of the imagination in Kant’s critical philosophy (particularly the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment) and claims that the insights of Kantian aesthetic theory, especially concerning the nature of creativity, common sense, and genius, influenced the development of nineteenth-century



American philosophy. The book identifies the central role of the imagination in the philosophy of Peirce, a role often overlooked in analytic treatments of his thought. The final chapters pursue the observation made by Kant and Peirce that imaginative genius is a type of natural gift (ingenium) and must in some way be continuous with the creative force of nature. It makes this final turn by way of contemporary studies of metaphor, embodied cognition, and cognitive neuroscience.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300367203321

Autore

Mahoney T.J

Titolo

Mercury / / by T.J. Mahoney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

1-4614-7951-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (359 p.)

Collana

A compendium of the astronomical lexicon. Part A, Gazetteer and atlas of astronomy. Volume 1, The terrestrial planets. Part 1, Mercury Mercury

Disciplina

500.5

520

523.01

523.41

Soggetti

Astronomy

Astrophysics

Solar system

Gravitation

Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences

Space Physics

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

List of Maps -- Foreword -- Preface to the Series -- Preface to Volume I, Part I -- Acknowledgements -- How to Use this Gazetteer --



Pronunciation Guide -- Abbreviations Used in the Gazetteer -- Mercury: An Overview -- Glossary of Terms Used in the Gazetteer.-Gazetteer of Mercury -- Classified Index of Surface Features on Mercury -- Atlas of Mercury -- Appendix 1: IAU Mercury Nomenclature -- Appendix 2: Key to Transcriptions of Non-roman Alphabets -- Appendix 3: Mercury Data -- Appendix 4: Mercury Transits -- Appendix 5: Mercury Timeline -- Bibliography. .

Sommario/riassunto

This gazetteer and atlas on Mercury lists, defines and illustrates every named (as opposed to merely catalogued) object and term as related to Mercury within a single reference work. It contains a glossary of terminology used, an index of all the headwords in the gazetteer, an atlas comprising maps and images with coordinate grids and labels identifying features listed in the gazetteer, and appendix material on the IAU nomenclature system and the transcription systems used for non-roman alphabets. This book is useful for the general reader, writers and editors dealing with astronomical themes, and those astronomers concerned with any aspect of astronomical nomenclature.