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Tuning the Mind: Connecting Aesthetics to Cognitive Science edited by Ruth Katz, Ruth Hacohen (Transaction) The Arts in Mind: Pioneering Texts of a Coterie of British Men of Letters edited by Ruth Katz, Ruth Hacohen (Transaction) Tuning the Mind: Connecting Aesthetics to Cognitive Science edited by Ruth Katz, Ruth Hacohen (Transaction) grew out of an insight that the cognitive studies that have become so central to contemporary discourse owe an unacknowledged debt to eighteenth-century deliberations on how art, and especially music, is processed by the mind. We realized from the outset that to explore this intellectual turn would require an in­terdisciplinary effort to mobilize the entire cultural spectrum that affected these deliberations. We soon discovered that what came to fruition towards the end of the eighteenth century had started as far back as the end of the sixteenth century, and was not fully recognized by the initiators themselves. Indeed, it is only with hindsight, once modem art no longer needs justification and cognitive studies are thriving that the position of these deliberations in intellectual history can be properly assessed. More

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