Actual Minds, Possible Worlds

Name: Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
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ISBN: 9780674003668

ISBN-10: 0674003667

ISBN-13: 9780674003668

Edition: 1986

Authors: Jerome Bruner

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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 side to the mind--a side devoted to the irrepressibly human acts of imagination that allow us to make experience meaningful. This is the side of the mind that leads to good stories, gripping drama, primitive myths and rituals, and plausible…

Book details

List price: $30.50
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 222
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.880



Preface



Two Natural Kinds



Approaching the Literary



Two Modes of Thought



Possible Castles



Language and Reality



The Transactional Self



The Inspiration of Vygotsky



Psychological Reality



Nelson Goodman's Worlds



Thought and Emotion



Acting in Constructed Worlds



The Language of Education



Developmental Theory as Culture Afterword


Appendix: A Reader's Retelling of ""Clay""



Notes


Credits


Index