Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition

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{ 249 } Abbot, Francis E., 63–64 abduction, 14, 54, 58, 66–104, 112, 116, 119, 121, 125–128, 133–136, 147, 157, 164, 185, 194, 197, 206, 209; as inference, 73–92, 96, 98, 104, 114, 116, 145, 185; as insight, 42, 80, 81–86, 89–92, 95, 99, 104, 114, 116, 150; in logic of question-answer, 87, 110–119; standards of, 82–86 adaptation, 58, 87, 122, 129, 158–159, 161–168, 178, 190 aesthetics, 8, 10, 13–15, 18, 38, 58, 59, 92, 94–95, 140–141, 148, 175, 193, 203; experience, 2–6, 9–12, 22, 23, 29, 30–32, 46, 58, 62–69; judgment (Kantian), 35–73, 96–97, 99–103, 120, 167–168, 175, 190, 193, 206, 209 agape, 95, 126, 133–135 agency, 187–188 aggregation, 133, 137, 158, 172, 181, 191 Alexander, Thomas, 23, 73 alpha graphs, 105–111, 118 American philosophy, 3, 9–13, 15, 21, 52, 54, 56, 63, 137, 161, 192–194 analogy, 72, 116–118, 147, 149–150, 174–175 Anderson, Douglas, 14, 23, 58, 72, 74, 77–82, 133–135 Apel, Karl-Otto, 96, 120 a posteriori, 96, 126, 128 a priori, 29, 30–32, 40–45, 96–97, 126, 148, 177 apogogue, 77, 79 Aristotle, 5, 26–27, 78–79, 113 art: of life, 205; of reasoning, 93; work of, 3, 8, 21, 48, 59, 62 Augustine, 143–144 autopoiesis, 172, 187–188 Barnouw, Jeffrey, 107 BCM model of synaptic regulation, 155–157 beauty, 7–8, 46, 48–55, 61, 147, 160, 209 boredom, 1, 4, 6–7, 11 Bradley, F. H., 17, 201 brain, 20, 66, 118, 145, 152–175, 179, 189, 197; architecture of, 20, 152–154, 161–166, 185, 189; limbic system, 166–169, 177, 187; neocortical areas, 167–168; Wernicke’s area, 152 Buber, Martin, 208–209 Buchler, Justus, 96 Cambridge Lectures (1898), 90, 114, 136, 201 Christianity, 9, 64, 135–136, 201 cognitive neuroscience, 6, 11, 137, 152, 161, 176, 188, 192 common sense, 43–53, 99–102, 128, 167, 193, 201 complexity, 6, 21, 71, 122, 129, 140–141, 165–191, 204 complex adaptive systems (cas), 190–191 community, 47, 68, 83, 99–102, 129, 202 continuity, 14, 22, 57–60, 65–70, 117–122, 128–129, 135–137, 180, 194, 197, 201, 204–205 core-shell model (of brain), 164–169 creativity: human, 5, 7, 14, 17, 20, 23–24, 57–58, 73–74, 91–92, 134; importance of, 23; natural, 17, 20, 139, 148, 153, 156, 165–191; possibilities for, 7, 192–209 cross-modal mapping, 20, 30, 145, 152, 158–164, 169, 171, 190, 194–195 Cezanne, Paul, 8, 22, 201 Damasio, Antonio, 19–20, 141 Darwin, Charles, 121–123, 158, 179, 195 deduction, 73,–76, 78, 97, 136, 151 degeneracy (neural), 20, 164, 172, 175–185, 190–191, 195 Index B 250 index determinate judgment, 40–50, 53, 55, 69, 101, 147, 168 determinism, 17 Dewey, John, 2, 4, 7–10, 13–14, 17, 22–23, 67, 119, 127, 147, 169–171, 186, 196–203 diagram, 63, 103–107, 111–118, 121 Dryden, Donald, 144, 203 Edelman, Gerald, ix, 20, 141, 153–156, 158–159, 164, 172–180, 182, 195, 206 emergence, 5, 19, 21, 35, 50, 92, 126, 133, 135, 142, 165–192 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 3, 62, 123, 130–131, 139, 204, 207 empirical investigation, 5, 11, 17–23, 29–32, 34, 38, 103, 117, 121, 123, 125–126, 130, 132–133, 139–143, 165, 171, 180, 188–189, 196–197 empiricism, 130 Enlightenment, 10–11, 25–26, 57, 141 epistemology, 7, 9, 12, 15, 18–19, 36, 38, 52–54, 57, 60, 64–65, 67, 70, 74, 76, 84, 141, 143 evolution, 19, 84, 129, 131, 137, 173, 176–177 evolutionary love, 16, 101, 121, 126, 128, 130, 132–134, 142 existential graphs, 80, 91, 103, 106–119 experience, 114–118, 143–147, 171, 176, 184–186, 189–198 fallibility, 42, 86, 101 feeling, 2, 4, 7, 30, 39, 43–49, 53, 62, 67, 69, 73, 95, 100, 102, 128, 135, 160, 167, 193–194 Fiebleman, James, 199–200 Gallese, Vittorio, 141, 162–164, 188 Gardenfors, Peter, 150, 181–184 genius, 12, 14, 16, 19, 28, 48–68, 75, 80, 85, 87, 92–101, 133–134, 180, 187, 193, 201, 206, 207; as active and passive, 96–98; as embodying a “happy relation,” 52; as mediating between past and future, 52–54; as natural gift, 12, 16, 19, 53, 98–99, 137; as...