The Mind's New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution - Softcover

Gardner, Howard E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465046355 ISBN 13: 9780465046355

Publisher: Basic Books, 1987

Synopsis

The first full-scale history of cognitive science, this work addresses a central issue: What is the nature of knowledge?

About this title

About the Author:

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

From Library Journal:

This is an ambitious attempt to define and summarize ``cognitive science,'' a new field of scientific inquiry and knowledge. The author, a leading authority and researcher in this area, writes in a clear, accessible manner; yet, his book conveys the tremendous scope and complexity of this burgeoning field. He convincingly links such seemingly disparate areas as linguistics, computer science, cognitive psychology, structural anthropology, and neuroscience, and attempts to integrate both their historical development and underlying approaches to cognition. Recommended for scholars as an introductory text and for informed laypersons who want a thorough and fascinating grounding in the study of the mind and how it works. Paul Hymowitz, Psychiatry Dept., Cornell Univ. Medical Ctr., New York
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About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0465046355
• ISBN 13: 9780465046355
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448