Intelligence and Intelligibility
Cross-Cultural Studies of Human Cognitive Experience
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 April 2020
- ISBN 9780198854593
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages176 pages
- Size 225x145x15 mm
- Weight 320 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
G. E. R. Lloyd considers how we can resolve the tension that exists between an appreciation of the cognitive capacities that all humans share, and a recognition of the great variety in their manifestations in different individuals and groups--while avoiding the imposition of prior Western assumptions and concepts.
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Across several intellectual disciplines there exists a tension between an appreciation of the cognitive capacities that all humans share and a recognition of the great variety in their manifestations in different individuals and groups. In this book G. E. R. Lloyd examines how, while avoiding the imposition of prior Western assumptions and concepts, we can reconcile two conflicting intuitions: that all humans share the same basic cognitive capacities and yet their actual manifestations in different individuals and groups differ appreciably. Lloyd investigates the cultural viability of analytic tools we commonly use (such as the contrasts between the literal and the metaphorical, between myth and rational account, and between nature and culture themselves) and the categories that we employ to organize human experience (like mathematics, religion, law, and aesthetics). The end result is a robust defence, within limits, of the possibilities of mutual intelligibility--one which recognizes both the diversity in the manifestations of human intelligence and the need to revise our assumptions in order to achieve that understanding.
Lloyd presents a lucid, insightful examination of human intelligence and cross-cultural understanding... Recommended. All readers.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Where does the problem come from?
Modes of discourse and the pragmatics of communication
Magic: efficacy and felicity
The argument from language
The argument from sociability
Turning the tables: Obstacles to mutual intelligibility
The evolutionary issues
Test case 1: Mathematics
Test case 2: Religion
Test case 3: Law
Test case 4: Aesthetics: Art and music
Conclusion
