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Book SynopsisCognition and Temporality: The Genesis of Historical Thought in Perception and Reasoning argues that both verbal grammar and figural grammar have their cognitive basis in twelve characteristic forms of judgment, distributed among individuals in human populations throughout history. These twelve logical forms are context-free and language-free foundations in our attentional awareness and shape all verbal and figural statements. Moreover, these types of historical judgment are psychogenetic inheritances in a population, and each serves a distinct problem-solving function in the human species. Through analysis of verbal and figural statements, Mark E. Blum contends, the researcher can find evidence of these forms of judgment and in turn analyze how the event to which those statements attend is formally constructed by that judgment. This construction guides how the event is assessed, approached, and engaged in the process of problem-solving.
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“Mark E. Blum addresses a rarely asked yet central question underpinning modern thought: what are the preconditions for our predominant paradigm for subjectivity, a paradigm that is determinative in both the natural sciences and the human sciences? Blum addresses the issue of how creatures who are genetically almost identical can have individual experiences, from which they then can distill a common and binding discourse. Instead of a psychological approach to subjectivity, Blum analyzes grammar and style to show how the objective emerges from the unstated but ever-present subjective. His treatment of art is exceptionally illuminating, making concrete the Kantian idea of a pre-objective universal subjectivity. Cognition and Temporality: The Genesis of Historical Thought in Perception and Reasoning will become necessary reading for anyone thinking about the places of the subject and the self in modernity, showing how modernity is rooted in universal context-free assumptions about the world that go back to our origin as a species.” —Gabriel Motzkin, Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations – Acknowledgements – Introduction – Discerning the Attentional Episteme in Its Verbal and Figural Grammar – The Problematic Modality of Continuity, Quantum, Continuum, and Dialectic – The Assertoric Modality of Continuity, Quantum, Continuum, and Dialectic – The Apodeictic Modality of Continuity, Quantum, Continuum, and Dialectic – An Evolutionary Myth of the Development of Differing Forms of Historical Judgment – The Argument for the Psycho-genetic Cause of Historical Logics – Ergon and Energeia in Verbal and Figurative Judgment: The Ushenko and the Pepper Family.
