Words and images [electronic resource] : an essay on the origin of ideas / Christopher Gauker. Gauker, Christopher. Idea (Philosophy) Comprehension (Theory of knowledge) BD220 121.4 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. 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. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 2011. 2011 Text 1 online resource (xii, 302 p.) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199599462.001.0001 eng