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. ANDREW WELLS Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the London School of Economics' Institute of Social Psychology, UK. INDICE: 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 theStudy 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 - -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20119-4
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 10/02/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés