Andy Wells

The Literate Mind (eBook, PDF)

A Study of Its Scope and Limitations

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Wells discusses how literacy affects human cognition from an ecological functionalism viewpoint by using the Turing machine, specifically the universal machine, as a model for the human mind. An excellent text for advanced undergraduate or graduate students of psychology, philosophy, linguistics and education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230368781
• Artikelnr.: 47860022

Autorenporträt

ANDREW WELLS is Lecturer in Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Literacy in the World Today
Social Construction and Independent Reality
Universal Human Nature and the Study of Literacy
The Literate Ecology
The Evolution of Cooperation and Selfishness
Sexual Selection, Sex Differences and Social Evolution
Turing Machines: Syntactic Foundations for the Study of Literacy
The Scope of the Literate Mind
Literacy in the Age of Computers and the Internet
Grounding the Literacy Episteme The Limitations of the Literate Mind
The Consequences of Literacy.