Vygotsky and Cognitive Science: Language and the Unification of the Social and Computational Mind

by William Frawley

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Is a human being a person or a machine? Is the mind a social construction or a formal device? It is both, William Frawley tells us, and by bringing together Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of the mind and cognitive science's computational model, he shows us how this not only can but must be. To do so, Frawley focuses on language, particularly on how the computational mind uses language to mediate the internal and the external during thought. By...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674332318

ISBN13:9780674332317

Release Date:February 1997

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:341 Pages

Weight:1.46 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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