Vygotsky and Cognitive Science: Language and the Unification of the Social and Computational Mind

Language: English

Published by Harvard University Press, 1997

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First edition. Minor tear to jacket spine base, jacket edges bumped. Pencil underlining and marginalia in Introduction only, ink name on front endpaper, page base lightly soiled. 1997 Hard Cover. 333 pp. Is a human being a person or a machine' Is the mind a social construction or a formal device' It is both, William Frawley tells us, and by bringing together Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of the mind and cognitive science's computational model, he shows us how this not only can but must be. To do so, Frawley focuses on language, particularly on how the computational mind uses language to mediate the internal and the external during thought. By reconciling the linguistic device and the linguistic person, he argues for a Vygotskyan cognitive science. Frawley begins by exploding the internalist/externalist dichotomy that presently drives cognitive science and falsely pits computationalism against socioculturalism. He replaces the reigning Platonic paradigm of computational mind-science with a framework based on an unusual, unified account of Wittgenstein, thus setting the stage for a Vygotskyan cognitive science centered on three aspects of mind: subjectivity, real-time operation, and breakdown. In this context, he demonstrates how computational psychology accommodates a critical aspect of Vygotskyan theory--private speech--as the mind's metacomputational regulator. An examination of certain congenital disorders (such as Williams Syndrome, Turner Syndrome, and autism) that disrupt speech further clarifies the issue of computational and cognitive control.…

Title
Vygotsky and Cognitive Science: Language and the Unification of the Social and Computational Mind
Author
Frawley, William
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication year
1997
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Good
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Binding
Hard Cover
Language
English
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0674943473
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9780674943476
Edition
First Edition.
Item weight
24 ounces
Dimensions
6x1x9

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