The cognitive life of maps / / Roberto Casati

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910901897603321
• Autore: Casati Roberto <1961->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2024]
• ISBN: 0-262-37723-3; 0-262-37722-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 pages)
• Disciplina: 114
• Soggetti: Space and time; Maps; Cartography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: A toolbox and the mechanics -- The central features of maps: systematicity, hypergenerativity -- Pictures and maps, pictures as maps, and some other maps -- Maps, navigation, and situation: red dots, green dots -- Maps and models -- Clockfaces -- Music notation as map -- Organizers as maps -- Concluding remarks: the cognitive life of maps.
• Sommario/riassunto: "An examination of the "mapness of maps" authored by a philosopher and cognitive scientist well known for his work on spatial representation"--