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

by William Frawley

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674332318
• ISBN13: 9780674332317
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"