| Description |
viii, 305 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / David R. Olson -- 2. Science in antiquity: The Greek and Chinese cases and their relevance to the problems of culture and cognition / Geoffrey Lloyd -- 3. Relations of analogy and identity: Toward multiple orientations to the world / Stanley J. Tambiah -- 4. Self, narrative, and memory: Reflections on Augustine, Petrarch, and Descartes / Brian Stock -- 5. Normal people / Ian Hacking -- 6. Modes of reasoning and the politics of authority in the modern state / Yaron Ezrahi -- 7. Frames for thinking: Ways of making meaning / Jerome Bruner -- 8. Autobiography and fiction as modes of thought / Carol Fleisher Feldman and David A. Kalmar -- 9. Inference in narrative and science / Keith Oatley -- 10. Literate mentalities: Literacy, consciousness of language, and modes of thought / David R. Olson -- 11. Mythology and analogy / Cameron Shelley and Paul Thagard -- 12. Cognitive domains as modes of thought / Susan Carey |
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13. Modes of thinking about living kinds: Science, symbolism, and common sense / Scott Atran -- 14. Is good thinking scientific thinking? / Deanna Kuhn -- 15. Network, the verb, and the appeal of collaborative modes of instruction and thought / Myron Tuman |
| Notes |
Papers originally presented at a workshop held at the University of Toronto |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Cognition and culture -- Congresses.
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Cognitive styles -- Congresses.
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Thought and thinking -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Olson, David R., 1935-
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Torrance, Nancy.
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| LC no. |
95046610 |
| ISBN |
0521496101 hardcover |
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0521566444 paperback |
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