Thinking with Diagrams : : The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition / / ed. by Sybille Krämer, Christina Ljungberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Bauer, Matthias,; Bogen, Steffen,; Giardino, Valeria,; Krämer, Sybille,; Ljungberg, Christina,; Marrinan, Michael,; Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko,; Shin, Sun-Joo,; Stjernfelt, Frederik,; Østergaard, Svend,
• HerausgeberIn: Krämer, Sybille,; Ljungberg, Christina,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] , 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (V, 247 p.)

Diagrammatic reasoning is crucial for human cognition. It is hard to think of any forms of science or knowledge without the "intermediary world" of diagrams and diagrammatic representation in thought experiments and/or processes, manifested in forms as divers as notes, tables, schemata, gr...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• Thinking and diagrams – An introduction
• I. What is a diagram and how does it function?
• 1. On the “thing-ness” of diagrams
• 2. The role of diagrams in abductive reasoning
• 3. Behind the diagrams: cognitive issues and open problems
• 4. Diagrammatic problem solving
• 5. Is there a general diagram concept?
• 6. The diagrammatic nature of maps
• II. Diagrammatic scenes
• 7. Is there a diagrammatic impulse with Plato? ‘Quasi-diagrammatic-scenes’ in Plato’s philosophy
• 8. The diagram as board game: Semiotic discoveries in Alfonso the Wise’s Book of Games (1283 CE) – with some observations as to Gudea as Architect (2000 BCE)
• 9. Pattern language and space syntax: Alexander, Chomsky, Peirce and Wittgenstein
• References
• Index of names
• Index of subjects