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出版商:
Springer
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出版日期:
2025-06-19
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售價:
$7,070
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貴賓價:
9.5 折
$6,717
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語言:
英文
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頁數:
250
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裝訂:
Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
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ISBN:
3031912128
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ISBN-13:
9783031912122
商品描述
This book provides an account of the origins and development of iconic and symbolic representations in our evolutionary lineage, the hominis, and of the cognitive capacities and brain structures that support such a development. At first, it introduces the three basic types of signs, such as indices, icons, and symbols, used by most animals, including apes and hominins, for communicating and interacting with the environment, and discusses the differences among them. In turn, it explains the evolution from non-representational indices to iconic, first, and then symbolic representations in terms of the evolution of the cognitive capacities in our lineage. The main emphasis is on the cognitive capabilities that support the use of these types of signs, such as attention, executive functions, and working memory, among others. The discussion centers on determining these capacities, and how and why these capacities evolved in the phylogenesis of hominids. Further, evidence from psychology and neuroscience are used to shed light on the development of these capacities in hominins, together with knowledge about the basic brain structures supporting these capacities, such as the prefrontal cortex, and their development at the ontogenetic and phylogenetic scales. All in all, this book offers a theory of the development of our representational arsenal from its beginnings characterized by simple signs to its modern form made of highly abstract symbols.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書提供了我們進化系譜中人類（hominis）標誌性和象徵性表徵的起源與發展的描述，以及支持這種發展的認知能力和大腦結構。首先，它介紹了大多數動物（包括猿類和人類）用於與環境進行交流和互動的三種基本符號類型，如指標（indices）、圖像（icons）和符號（symbols），並討論了它們之間的差異。接著，它解釋了從非表徵性指標演變到圖像，然後再到符號表徵的過程，這一過程是基於我們系譜中認知能力的演變。主要強調支持這些符號類型使用的認知能力，如注意力、執行功能和工作記憶等。討論的重點在於確定這些能力，以及這些能力在猿人類的系統發展中是如何及為何演變的。此外，心理學和神經科學的證據被用來闡明這些能力在人類中的發展，並結合有關支持這些能力的基本大腦結構（如前額葉皮層）及其在個體發育和系統發展中的演變。總之，本書提供了一個理論，闡述了我們的表徵工具從以簡單符號為特徵的起源到由高度抽象符號組成的現代形式的發展過程。
作者簡介
Athanassios Raftopoulos is Professor of Epistemology and Cognitive Science at the Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus and holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University (2002). He also gained: a Diploma (DEA) in Philosophy from the University of Sorbonne, a MA in Philosophy and History of Science from the Johns Hopkins University, and a Bsc in Physics and BA In Philosophy and Psychology, from the University of Thessaloniki. Professor Raftopoulos research interests cover Philosophy of Perception, Cognitive penetrability of perception and the epistemic role of Perception, Philosophy of Science, and Epistemology. He published two monographs on Philosophy and Epistemology of Perception with MIT and Palgrave Macmillan, respectively, edited, and co-edited seven books on the above-mentioned topics, with various publishers, including Oxford and Cambridge University Press. He is an Advisory Editor of the book series SAPERE, published by Springer, and he is the author of more than 100 papers and book chapters. In addition, he has delivered numerous talks and plenary lectures at conferences.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
阿薩納西奧斯·拉夫托普洛斯（Athanassios Raftopoulos）是塞浦路斯大學心理學系的認識論與認知科學教授，並於約翰霍普金斯大學獲得哲學博士學位（2002年）。他還獲得了：索邦大學的哲學文憑（DEA）、約翰霍普金斯大學的科學哲學與歷史碩士學位，以及塞薩洛尼基大學的物理學學士學位和哲學與心理學學士學位。拉夫托普洛斯教授的研究興趣涵蓋感知哲學、感知的認知可滲透性及其認識論角色、科學哲學和認識論。他與麻省理工學院（MIT）和帕爾格雷夫·麥克米倫（Palgrave Macmillan）分別出版了兩部關於感知的哲學與認識論的專著，並編輯及共同編輯了七本相關主題的書籍，出版商包括牛津大學出版社和劍橋大學出版社。他是施普林格（Springer）出版的書系SAPERE的顧問編輯，並且是超過100篇論文和書籍章節的作者。此外，他在多個會議上發表了許多演講和全體講座。
