In:The Abstraction Engine: Extracting patterns in language, mind and brain
Michael Fortescue
[Advances in Consciousness Research 94] 2017
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 11 April 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.94.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.94.toc
Table of Contents
1.Introduction: abstraction all the way down
1
2.Language, abstract and less abstract
7
3.Cognitive linguistics: language embodied
29
4.Abstraction, metaphor and cultural context
39
5.The abstraction of events in narrative and memory
53
6.Pre-linguistic abstraction and projection: perception and imagination
73
7.The feel of things: abstract emotion
85
8.Neurological underpinnings: the world seen through hidden layers
95
9.Abstraction at work: it’s child’s play
111
10.The philosophical approach
123
11.Abstraction all the way up: its evolutionary purpose
149
References
175
Name index
185
Subject index
189
