Universals of human thought : some African evidence

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Label

Universals of human thought : some African evidence

Title remainder

some African evidence

Statement of responsibility

edited by Barbara Lloyd, John Gay

Contributor

• University of Cambridge, African Studies Centre
• Gay, John
• Lloyd, Barbara Bloom

Subject

• Cognition et culture
• Conference proceedings
• Denken
• Kognitive Entwicklung
• Pensée -- Congrès
• Perception
• Philosophie africaine -- Congrès
• Philosophy, African
• Philosophy, African -- Congresses
• Sprachliche Universalien
• Thought and thinking
• Thought and thinking -- Congresses
• Universales (Filosofía) -- Congresos
• Universalien
• Universals (Philosophy)
• Universals (Philosophy) -- Congresses
• Universaux
• Universaux -- Congrès
• Wahrnehmung

Genre

• Conference proceedings
• Congresses
• Congrès

Language

eng

Summary

The theme of universals has attracted a great deal of research and speculation in the last decade. Psychologists and linguists in particular have attempted to identify substantive universals that underlie the social diversity across cultures which anthropologists have documented. These efforts are still inconclusive, and controversial, but have at least served to provide a necessary antidote to certain narrow forms of relativism and empiricism that had become current, and social scientists generally have a crucial interest in the success or failure of the attempt. The contributors to this volume all focus on the relevant data in Africa to explain and test the major questions at issue. The book is divided into three main sections, dealing respectively with perception, cognitive development and language. There is also a general review and prospectus by Jerome Bruner, and a wide-ranging introduction to the philosophical background by Ernest Gellner

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

B105.U5

LC item number

U56

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography