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Acts of Meaning - Four Lectures on Mind and Culture by Jerome Bruner
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Jerusalem Lectures | Reading Level: new
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 gras ...Show more
After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist by Clifford Geertz
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures | Reading Level: very good
"Suppose," Clifford Geertz suggests, "having entangled yourself every now and again over four decades or so in the goings-on in two provincial towns, one a Southeast Asian bend in the road, one a North African outpost and passage point, you wished to say something about how those goings-on had changed." ...Show more
Imagined Worlds by Freeman J. Dyson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures | Reading Level: very good
Imagine a world where whole epochs will pass, cultures rise and fall, between a telephone call and the reply. Think of the human race multiplying 500-million fold, or evolving new, distinct species. Consider the technology of space colonization, computer-assisted reproduction, the "Martian potato." One ...Show more
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle - Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time by Stephen Gould
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures | Reading Level: good-very good
Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and dead bones to life, and developed an immense followi ...Show more
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