Concept
Keith Holyoak
Overview
Keith James Holyoak (born January 16, 1950) is a Canadian–American researcher in cognitive psychology and cognitive science, working on human thinking and reasoning. Holyoak's work focuses on the role of analogy in thinking. His work showed how analogy can be used to enhance learning of new abstract concepts by both children and adults, as well as how reasoning breaks down in cases of brain damage.
Holyoak is also a poet. He has published four collections of his own poems, My Minotaur, Foreigner, The Gospel According to Judas, and Oracle Bones, as well as a collection of translations of classical Chinese poetry by Li Bai and Du Fu, Facing the Moon.
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Ordinarily, however, we are able to distinguish one from the other. Two criteria are usually present; (1) imagery is fainter, more fleeting, than the corresponding sense-experience; and (2), save in the case of accurate memory-images, it is subject to a more or less arbitrary rearrangement of its parts, as when, for example, we make over the images of scenes we have actually experienced, to furnish forth the setting…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
Close in meaning to Keith Holyoak; the term itself is not named.
Their first essays show hardly a rudiment of the future song; but as they grow older we can perceive what they are aiming at; and at last they are said “to sing their song round.” Nestlings which have learned the song of a distinct species, as with the canary-birds educated in the Tyrol, teach and transmit their new song to their offspring. The slight natural differences of song in the same species inhabiting…
Charles Darwin, Darwinism stated by Darwin himself
Close in meaning to Keith Holyoak; the term itself is not named.
It creates a class of "thinkers" who are remote from practice and hence from testing their thought by application--a socially superior and irresponsible class. This is the condition causing the tragic division of theory and practice, and leading to an unreasonable exaltation of theory on one side and an unreasonable contempt for it on the other. It confirms current practice in its hard brutalities and dead routines…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
Close in meaning to Keith Holyoak; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Analogy
- Stanford University
- University of Michigan
- University of California, Los Angeles
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Oxford University Press
- Cognitive science
- Cognitive psychology
- MIT Press
- Cambridge University Press
- Du Fu
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy in Canada.