Brains/Practices/Relativism: Social Theory After Cognitive Science

by Stephen Turner

Brains/Practices/Relativism presents the first major rethinking of social theory in light of cognitive science. Stephen P. Turner focuses especially on connectionism, which views learning as a process of adaptation to input that, in turn, leads to patterns of response distinct to each individual. This means that there is no common "server" from which people download shared frameworks that enable them to cooperate or communicate. Therefore, argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226817393
• ISBN13: 9780226817392
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"