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Acts of meaning / Jerome S. Bruner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: : International Book Distributors | : Flat No.-17, Prakash Apartments, Building No.- 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002Publication details: , Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1990.Description: xvii, 179 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780674003613
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150 BRU
Contents:
The proper study of man Folk psychology as an instrument of culture Entry into meaning Autobiography and self
Summary: Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as "information processor;" has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture. - Publisher
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The proper study of man
Folk psychology as an instrument of culture
Entry into meaning
Autobiography and self

Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as "information processor;" has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture. - Publisher

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