Modes of Thought: Explorations in Culture and CognitionModes of Thought addresses a topic of broad interest to the cognitive sciences. Its central focus is on the apparent contrast between the widely assumed 'psychological unity of mankind' and the facts of cognitive pluralism, the diverse ways in which people think and the developmental, cultural, technological and institutional factors which contribute to that diversity. Whether described in terms of modes of thought, cognitive styles, or sensibilities, the diversity of patterns of rationality to be found between cultures, in different historical periods, between individuals at different stages of development remains a central problem for a cultural psychology. Modes of Thought brings together anthropologists, historians, psychologists and educational theorists who manage to recognise the universality in thinking and yet acknowledge the cultural, historical and developmental contexts in which differences arise. |
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Contents
List of contributors | |
Preface | |
Introduction | 1 |
Science in antiquity The Greek and Chinese cases and their relevance to the problems of culture and cognition | 15 |
Relations of analogy and identity Toward multiple opentations to the world | 34 |
Self narrative and memory Reflections on Augustine Petrarch and Descartes | 53 |
Normal people | 59 |
Modes of reasoning and the politics of authority in the modern state | 72 |
Inference in narrative and science | 123 |
Literate mentalities Literacy consciousness of language and modes of thought | 141 |
Mythology and analogy | 152 |
Cognitive domains as modes of thought | 187 |
Modes of thinking about living kinds Science symbolism and common sense | 216 |
Is good thinking scientific thinking? Deanna Kuhn | 261 |
Network the verb and the appeal of collaborative modes of instruction and thought | 282 |
Author index | 295 |
Frames for thinking Ways of making meaning | 93 |
Autobiography and fiction as modes of thought | 106 |
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| Title | Modes of Thought: Explorations in Culture and Cognition Modes of Thought: Explorations in Culture and Cognition, Nancy Torrance |
| Editors | David R. Olson, Nancy Torrance |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0521566444, 9780521566445 |
| Length | 305 pages |
| Subjects | › Education / Educational Psychology Social Science / General |
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