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Acts of Meaning

Four Lectures on Mind and Culture

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$30.00 • £26.95 • €27.95

ISBN 9780674003613

Publication Date: 01/01/1993

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208 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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Jerome 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.

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