The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture AUTH-5059062 Finley is a professor in

Finley is a professor in the department of Art and Public Policy at Tisch School of the Arts

ISBN13: 9780049660045

ISBN13: 9780578168661

Adler maintains that these fundamental questions are not satisfactorily treated in the two main philosophies of language that have dominated twentieth-century thinking on the subject - the syntactical and 'ordinary language' approaches

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The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture AUTH-5059062 Finley is a professor in"A startling argument . . . provocative . . . absorbing." The Boston Globe "Ambitious . . . arresting . . . celebrates the importance of hands to our lives today as well as to the history of our species." The New York Times Book Review The human hand is a miracle of biomechanics, one of the most remarkable adaptations in the history of evolution. The hands of a concert pianist can elicit glorious sound and stir emotion; those of a surgeon can perform