Actual Minds, Possible Worlds

Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9780674029019
ISBN-13 : 0674029011
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Download or read book Actual Minds, Possible Worlds written by Jerome S. BRUNER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imaginative creation of possible worlds, and he shows how the activity of imaginary world making undergirds human science, literature, and philosophy, as well as everyday thinking, and even our sense of self. - Publisher.


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