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    Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
    Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
    Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
    Audiobook8 hours

    Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature

    Written by Alva Noë

    Narrated by Tom Perkins

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    About this audiobook

    In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers new answers to such questions. He also shows why recent efforts to frame questions about art in terms of neuroscience and evolutionary biology alone have been and will continue to be unsuccessful.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 22, 2015
    ISBN9781515970651
    Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
    Author

    Alva Noë

    Alva Noë is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also a member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Science. He is the author of the books Out of Our Heads and Action in Perception.

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    • 1/5
      What a shame. Recording riddled with holes, including surfing ahead.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      (The audio works fine, despite what a couple of other reviewers said.)

      I found this a totally fascinating account of art and philosophy and their shared nature — with some strange and frustrating passages, too.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Only the greatest philosopher could make the boringest game interesting and insightful.
    • 1/5
      The recording is broken, every third word can be heard