1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778196303321

Autore

Bruner Jerome S (Jerome Seymour)

Titolo

Actual minds, possible worlds / / Jerome Bruner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 1986

ISBN

0-674-02901-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 201 pages)

Collana

The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures

Disciplina

153.3

Soggetti

Psychology and literature

Psycholinguistics

Creative ability

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One. Two Natural Kinds -- 1. Approaching the Literary -- 2. Two Modes of Thought -- 3. Possible Castles -- Part Two. Language and Reality -- 4. The Transactional Self -- 5. The Inspiration of Vygotsky -- 6. Psychological Reality -- 7. Nelson Goodman's Worlds -- 8. Thought and Emotion -- Part Three. Acting in Constructed Worlds -- 9. The Language of Education -- 10. Developmental Theory as Culture -- Afterword -- Appendix: A Reader's Retelling of "Clay" by James Joyce -- Notes -- Credits -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has set its sights too narrowly on the logical, systematic aspects of mental life—those thought processes we use to solve puzzles, test hypotheses, and advance explanations. There is obviously another side to the mind—a side devoted to the irrepressibly human acts of imagination that allow us to make experience meaningful. This is the side of the mind that leads to good stories, gripping drama, primitive myths and rituals, and plausible historical accounts. Bruner calls it the “narrative mode,” and his book makes important advances in the effort to unravel its nature. Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology,



Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imaginative creation of possible worlds, and he shows how the activity of imaginary world making undergirds human science, literature, and philosophy, as well as everyday thinking, and even our sense of self. Over twenty years ago, Jerome Bruner first sketched his ideas about the mind’s other side in his justly admired book, On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand. Actual Minds, Possible Worlds can be read as a sequel to this earlier work, but it is a sequel that goes well beyond its predecessor by providing rich examples of just how the mind’s narrative mode can be successfully studied. The collective force of these examples points the way toward a more humane and subtle approach to the investigation of how the mind works.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910823637903321

Autore

Serres Michel

Titolo

Rome : the first book of foundations / / Michel Serres ; translated by Randolph Burks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2020

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

1-4742-5972-3

1-4725-9016-3

1-4725-9017-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 pages)

Collana

The foundations triology

Classificazione

PHI019000PHI001000

Disciplina

937/.01

Soggetti

Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Rome History To 510 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The Greatness of the Romans: the Fable of the Termites -- THE BLACK AND WHITE: THE COVERING OVER -- I. BLACK BOX: The Trampled Multiplicity -- II. CITY OF ALBA: The White Multiplicity -- THE EMPIRE AND SUFFRAGE: DEATH III. EMPIRE: The Fragmented Multiplicity -- IV. SUFFRAGE: The Assembled Multiplicity -- THE EXCLUDED MIDDLE OR



THIRD -- V. AENEAS, SABINES TARQUINS, CORIOLANUS: The Composite Multiplicity -- VI. WAR AND PLAGUE: The Multiplicity in Representation CROWDS -- VII. IN THE CITY: The Agitated Multiplicity -- VIII. IN THE FIELD: The Multiplicity in Peace.

Sommario/riassunto

"Michel Serres first book in his 'foundations trilogy' is all about beginnings. The beginning of Rome but also about the beginning of society, knowledge and culture. Rome is an examination of the very foundations upon which contemporary society has been built. With characteristic breadth and lyricism, Serres leads the reader on a journey from a meditation the roots of scientific knowledge to set theory and aesthetics. He explores the themes of violence, murder, sacrifice and hospitality in order to urge us to avoid the repetitive violence of founding. Rome also provides an alternative and creative reading of Livy's Ab urbe condita which sheds light on the problems of history, repetition and imitation. First published in English in 1991, re-translated and introduced in this new edition, Michel Serres' Rome is a contemporary classic which shows us how we came to live the way we do"--

3.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00115013

Autore

Gómez, Víctor

Titolo

Multivariate time series with linear state space structure / Víctor Gómez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Cham], : Springer, 2016

Titolo uniforme

Multivariate time series with linear state space structure

Descrizione fisica

XVII, 541 p. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

37M10 - Time series analysis of dynamical systems [MSC 2020]

60Gxx - Stochastic processes [MSC 2020]

62-XX - Statistics [MSC 2020]

62M10 - Time series, auto-correlation, regression, etc. in statistics (GARCH) [MSC 2020]

62M20 - Inference from stochastic processes and prediction; filtering [MSC 2020]

65Fxx - Numerical linear algebra [MSC 2020]

93E10 - Estimation and detection in stochastic control theory [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia