Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and CultureJerome 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. |
Contents
The Proper Study of Man | 1 |
Folk Psychology as an Instrument of Culture | 33 |
Entry into Meaning | 67 |
Autobiography and Self | 99 |
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