Actual Minds, Possible Worlds /

Actual Minds, Possible Worlds / / Jerome Bruner.

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, syst...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Bruner, Jerome,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [1987]
©1986
Year of Publication:1987
Language:English
Series:John Harvard library
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Physical Description:1 online resource (222 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part One. Two Natural Kinds
  • 1. Approaching the Literary
  • 2. Two Modes of Thought
  • 3. Possible Castles
  • Part Two. Language and Reality
  • 4. The Transactional Self
  • 5. The Inspiration of Vygotsky
  • 6. Psychological Reality
  • 7. Nelson Goodman's Worlds
  • 8. Thought and Emotion
  • Part Three. Acting in Constructed Worlds
  • 9. The Language of Education
  • 10. Developmental Theory as Culture
  • Afterword
  • Appendix: A Reader's Retelling of "Clay" by James Joyce
  • Notes
  • Credits
  • Index

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