Strange Tools
Download or Read eBook Strange Tools PDF written by Alva Noë and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Alva Noë |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2015-09-22 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781429945257 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1429945257 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Strange Tools by : Alva Noë
Book excerpt: A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves In his new book, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers new answers to such questions. He also shows why recent efforts to frame questions about art in terms of neuroscience and evolutionary biology alone have been and will continue to be unsuccessful.
