E-book: The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought (2008)

The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought

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Jr., Raymond W. Gibbs “The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought" 
Cambridge University Press | 2008-09-22 | ISBN: 0521841062 | 564 pages | PDF | 5,7 MB

The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought offers the most comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has ever been published. These essays explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression. There are five main themes of the book: the roots of metaphor, metaphor understanding, metaphor in language and culture, metaphor in reasoning and feeling, and metaphor in nonverbal expression. Contributors come from a variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, literature, education, music, and law.

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Scientific American November 2008

Scientific American November 2008

Posted: 04 Nov 2008 12:15 PM CST

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How far can science advance brain-machine interface technology? Will we one day pipe the latest blog entry or NASCAR highlights directly into the human brain as if the organ were an outsize flash drive? Global warming has become such an overriding emergency that some climate experts are willing to consider schemes for partly shielding the planet from the sun’s rays. But no such scheme is a magic bullet

E-book: Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon, 2nd Edition (1987)

Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon, 2nd Edition

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Jean Aitchison “Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon, 2nd Edition " 
Blackwell Pub | 1987-09 | ISBN: 0631144420 | 288 pages | PDF | 19,1 MB

This book deals with words, and how humans learn them, remember them, understand them, and find the ones they want. In brief, it discusses the structure and content of the human word-store or 'mental lexicon', with particular reference to the spoken language of native English speakers. Since the first two editions of "Words in the Mind" were published, work on the lexicon has exploded. This is reflected in this new edition, which contains substantial additions. One new chapter has been added on layering and meaning change, and several others have been considerably expanded. The notes and suggestions for further reading have been updated, and numerous new references have been included. The book remains accessible in style and easy to read for both undergraduates and non-specialists.

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E-book: Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics (2008)

Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics

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Philip Pettit “Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics" 
Princeton University Press | 2008-01-03 | ISBN: 0691129290 | 192 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy.
Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented the invention of language thesis--the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed the human mind. The invention, in Hobbes's story, is a double-edged sword. It enables human beings to reason, commit themselves as persons, and incorporate in groups. But it also allows them to agonize about the future and about their standing relative to one another; it takes them out of the Eden of animal silence and into a life of inescapable conflict--the state of nature. Still, if language leads into this wasteland, according to Hobbes, it can also lead out. It can enable people to establish a commonwealth where the words of law and morality have a common, enforceable sense, and where people can invoke the sanctions of an absolute sovereign to give their words to one another in credible commitment and contract.
Written by one of today's leading philosophers, Made with Words is both an original reinterpretation and a clear and lively introduction to Hobbes's thought.

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Scientific American Mind June-July 2008

Scientific American Mind June-July 2008

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 03:50 PM CDT

Scientific American Mind is a bimonthly American popular science magazine concentrated on psychology, neuroscience, and related fields. By analyzing and revealing new thinking in the cognitive sciences, the magazine is able to focus on the biggest breakthroughs in these fields. Scientific American Mind is published by Scientific American and was started in 2004