Strange tools : art and human nature / Alva Noë.

New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

x, 285 pages ; 24 cm

First edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Getting organized -- Reorganizing ourselves -- Designers by nature -- Art loops and the garden of eden -- Art, evolution, and the puzzle of puzzles -- A short note on ecstasy, sports, and humor -- Philosophical objects -- See me if you can! -- Why is art so boring? -- Art and the limits of neuroscience -- Art is a philosophical practice, and philosophy an aesthetic one -- Making pictures -- Using models -- Pictorial strategies -- Air guitar styles -- The sound of music -- A very abbreviated and highly opinionated history of aesthetics.