By Roy Harris
This publication re-examines the previous debate concerning the dating among rationality and literacy. Does writing "restructure consciousness?" Do preliterate societies have a distinct "mind-set" from literate societies? Is cause "built in" to the way in which we predict? How is literacy regarding numeracy? Is the "logical shape" that Western philosophers realize something greater than an extrapolation from the constitution of the written sentence? Is good judgment, as built officially in Western schooling, intrinsically past the achieve of the preliterate brain? What gentle, if any, do the findings of up to date neuroscience throw on such concerns? Roy Harris demanding situations the acquired mainstream opinion that cause is an intrinsic estate of the human brain, and argues that the total Western belief of rational idea, from Classical Greece right down to glossy symbolic common sense, is a spinoff of how literacy constructed in ecu cultures.
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