Self, Logic, and Figurative Thinking
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Self, Logic, and Figurative Thinking

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Self, Logic, and Figurative Thinking

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Harwood Fisher argues against neuroscientific and cognitive scientific explanations of mental states, for they fail to account for the gaps between actions in the brain, cognitive operations, linguistic mapping, and an individual's account of experience. Fisher probes a rich array of thought from the primitive and the dream to the artistic figure of speech, and extending to the scientific metaphor. He draws on first-person methodologies to restore the conscious self to a primary function in the generation of figurative thinking.

How does the individual originate and organize terms and ideas? How can we differentiate between different types of thought and account for their origins? Fisher depicts the self as mediator between trope and logical form. Conversely, he explicates the creation and articulation of the self through interplay between logic and icon. Fisher explains how the "I" can step out of scripted roles. The self is neither a discursive agent of postmodern linguistics nor a socially determined entity. Rather, it is a historically situated, dynamically constituted place at the crossroads of conscious agency and unconscious actions and evolving contextual logics and figures.

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780231518666
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Neuroscience
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction: Major Terms, Their Classification, and Their Relation to the Book's Objective
  4. 1. The Problem of Analogous Forms
  5. 2. Natural Logic, Categories, and the Individual
  6. 3. Shift to Individual Categories, Dynamics, and a Psychological Look at Identity
  7. 4. Form Versus Function
  8. 5. What Is the Difference Between the Logic Governing a Figure of Speech and the Logic That Is Immature or Unconscious?
  9. 6. What Are the Role and Function of the Self Vis-Ă -vis Consciousness?
  10. 7. Development in the Logic from Immature to Mature Modes
  11. 8. Pathological and Defensive Logical Forms
  12. 9. The "I," Identity, and the Part-Whole Resolutions
  13. 10. The "I," Entropy, and the Trope
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Index