Abstract

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. (http://books.google.fr/books?id=YHt_M41uIuUC&pg=PA157&dq=Bruner,+J.+%281990%29.+Acts+of+meaning&hl=fr&ei=EwOXTrqpCsPWsgaGgO2YBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false)

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Meaning (existential)LinguisticsPhilosophyHistoryEpistemology

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Year
1991
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article
Volume
28
Issue
11
Pages
28-6498
Citations
8194
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Jerome S. Bruner (1991). Acts of meaning. Choice Reviews Online , 28 (11) , 28-6498. https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.28-6498

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