Actual Minds, Possible Worlds

Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 0674003667
ISBN-13 : 9780674003668
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Download or read book Actual Minds, Possible Worlds written by Jerome Bruner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruner sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of the mind. He examines the irrepressibly human acts of imagination that allow us to make experience meaningful; he calls this side of mental activity the “narrative mode,” and his book makes important advances in the effort to unravel its nature.


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