Download or read book Words and Images written by Christopher Gauker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries philosophers have attempted to derive concepts from perceptual representations but have failed to explain how the mind generates the building blocks of thought. Gauker addresses this problem in a new account of imagistic cognition. He shows that much of cognition occurs by means of mental imagery, without the help of concepts.