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The Philosophy of Gesture: Completing Pragmatists´ Incomplete Revolution
Giovanni Maddalena
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Description for The Philosophy of Gesture: Completing Pragmatists´ Incomplete Revolution
Paperback. A revolutionary pragmatist account of creativity and synthetic reasoning that relies upon gesture, an action that carries on meaning. Num Pages: 206 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 314.
In everyday reasoning - just as in science and art - knowledge is acquired more by doing than with long analyses. What do we do when we discover something new? How can we define and explore the pattern of this reasoning, traditionally called synthetic ? Following in the steps of classic pragmatists, especially C.S. Pierce, Giovanni Maddalena's Philosophy of Gesture revolutionizes the pattern of synthesis through the ideas of change and continuity and proposes gesture as a new tool for synthesis. Defining gesture as an action with a beginning and an end ... Read more
In everyday reasoning - just as in science and art - knowledge is acquired more by doing than with long analyses. What do we do when we discover something new? How can we define and explore the pattern of this reasoning, traditionally called synthetic ? Following in the steps of classic pragmatists, especially C.S. Pierce, Giovanni Maddalena's Philosophy of Gesture revolutionizes the pattern of synthesis through the ideas of change and continuity and proposes gesture as a new tool for synthesis. Defining gesture as an action with a beginning and an end ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
McGill-Queen´s University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
314g
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773546134
SKU
V9780773546134
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About Giovanni Maddalena
Giovanni Maddalena is professor of philosophy at the University of Molise.
Reviews for The Philosophy of Gesture: Completing Pragmatists´ Incomplete Revolution
With The Philosophy of Gesture Maddalena depicts an innovative epistemic tool for our everyday reasoning, opening a whole new horizon of research in various fields, from theoretical philosophy to ethics, from psychology to the social sciences. Cognitio Rarely these days are philosophy books both bold and sweeping, but Maddalena's The Philosophy of Gesture is both. The conclusion of ... Read more