Actual Minds, Possible Worlds

by Jerome Bruner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674003667
• ISBN13: 9780674003668
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Rounding Out The Picture Of Bruner's Work

Reading Bruner is as easy as putting on a wet suit just out of the drier. Many times, he obfuscates his language such that it is a struggle to capture the meaning. And he is an addicted name-dropper.But he is still worth reading, and this collection adds to the portrait of his thinking, so in that sense, I warmly recommend it. I particularly enjoyed his chapter on Vygotsky's influence on psychology and education--enough so that I will begin to go down that road and pursue some of his books.What I like most of Bruner's work is his regard for the cultural influences working in tandem with the individual's cognitive self--he respects both aspects.Whoever heard of putting a wetsuit in a drier?