Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)

By Jerome Bruner.

Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)

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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 th...

ISBN(s)

0674003667, 9780674003668

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