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Paperback Actual Minds, Possible Worlds Book

ISBN: 0674003667

ISBN13: 9780674003668

Actual Minds, Possible Worlds

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In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has set its sights too narrowly on the logical, systematic aspects of mental life-those thought processes we use to solve puzzles, test hypotheses, and advance explanations. There is obviously another...

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Rounding Out The Picture Of Bruner's Work

Reading Bruner is as easy as putting on a wet suit just out of the drier. Many times, he obfuscates his language such that it is a struggle to capture the meaning. And he is an addicted name-dropper.But he is still worth reading, and this collection adds to the portrait of his thinking, so in that sense, I warmly recommend it. I particularly enjoyed his chapter on Vygotsky's influence on psychology and education--enough so that I will begin to go down that road and pursue some of his books.What I like most of Bruner's work is his regard for the cultural influences working in tandem with the individual's cognitive self--he respects both aspects.Whoever heard of putting a wetsuit in a drier?
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