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The Sailing Mind
This book scrutinizes the practice of sailing and its relation to philosophy of mind. Sailing brings about a peculiar human-artifact interaction which can lead to unexplored research paths. The idea behind this collection is that this interaction is better scrutinized by sailor scientists/philosophers to open up new possible pathways in research. Fascinating theoretical breakthroughs have been provided by observing sailing practices with the most well-known being Hutchins’ introduction in cognitive science of the concept of “distributed cognition.” However, in times past, sailing has both fueled philosophical metaphors, from Theseus’ ship to Plato’s image of the intellect as the bo...
The Cognitive Life of Maps
The “mapness of maps”—how maps live in interaction with their users, and what this tells us about what they are and how they work. In a sense, maps are temporarily alive for those who design, draw, and use them. They have, for the moment, a cognitive life. To grapple with what this means—to ask how maps can be alive, and what kind of life they have—is to explore the core question of what maps are. And this is what Roberto Casati does in The Cognitive Life of Maps, in the process assembling the conceptual tools for understanding why maps have the power they have, why they are so widely used, and how we use (and misuse) them. Drawing on insights from cognitive science and philosophy ...
Pirate Lands
In Pirate Lands, Ursula Daxecker and Brandon Prins argue that pirates operate in locations where local governance is weak enough to incentivize collusion among pirates and local authorities, but strong enough to ensure that infrastructure and markets permit the organization of sustained piracy. Conducting cross-national and subnational analyses of Indonesia, Nigeria, and Somalia, they show how governance at the state and local levels explain maritime piracy. They further employ interviews with former pirates, community members, and maritime security experts to offer the first comprehensive, social-scientific account of maritime piracy.
What It All Means
How meaning works—from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music—and how meaning is connected to truth. We communicate through language, connecting what we mean to the words we say. But humans convey meaning in other ways as well, with facial expressions, hand gestures, and other methods. Animals, too, can get their meanings across without words. In What It All Means, linguist Philippe Schlenker explains how meaning works, from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music. He shows that these extraordinarily diverse types of meaning can be studied and compared within a unified approach—...
A Multimodal Language Faculty
"Presenting a model of a multimodal language faculty which heralds a re-organization of the structures of language and their guiding assumptions, this book shows that although the primary human expressive behaviors - speaking, signing, drawing - may seem distinct, they actually decompose into similar cognitive building blocks, which coalesce into a multifaceted multimodal communicative system"--
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Do Roraima ao Orinoco Vol 2 - Resultados de uma viagem no Norte do Brasil e na Venezuela nos anos de 1911 a 1913
No alvorecer do século XX, o antropólogo e explorador alemão Theodor Koch-Grünberg aventurou-se em uma saga apaixonante pelo Brasil setentrional, em viagens pelo norte do Amazonas, entre a Venezuela e a Guiana Inglesa. Em suas expedições, travou contato com muitas tribos, algumas das quais até então inteiramente desconhecidas, estudando suas línguas e seus costumes. O trabalho etnográfico do explorador legou-nos registros linguísticos, botânicos, zoológicos e iconográficos de valor inestimável, e, como corolário, tornou-se marco vigoroso no percurso de constituição da imagem e da autoimagem do Brasil. Neste volume, o autor faz um precioso registro de mitos e lendas indígenas com base nos relatos colhidos junto a integrantes das tribos visitadas. A coleção de relatos abrange mitos da natureza e lendas de heróis, contos, fábulas de animais e narrativas humorísticas.
