How Our Emotions and Bodies are Vital for Abstract Thought

How Our Emotions and Bodies are Vital for Abstract Thought

Taylor & Francis

How Our Emotions and Bodies are Vital for Abstract ThoughtPerfect Mathematics for Imperfect Minds\nAuthor(s): Anna Sverdlik\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138565845, 978-1138565845\nSynopsis\nIf mathematics is the purest form of knowledge, the perfect foundation of all the hard sciences, and a uniquely precise discipline, then how can the human brain, an imperfect and imprecise organ, process mathematical ideas? Is mathematics made up of eternal, universal truths? Or, as some have claimed, could mathematics simply be a human invention, a kind of tool or metaphor?\n\nThese questions are among the greatest enigmas of science and epistemology, discussed at length by mathematicians, physicians, and philosophers. But, curiously enough, neuroscientists have been absent in the debate, even though it is precisely the field of neurosciencewhich studies the brains mechanisms for thinking and reasoningthat ought to be at .

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