[PDF] Modes Of Thought eBook

Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 002935210X

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Modes of Thought was written 20 years ago from lectures delivered by Whitehead at Wellesley, the University of Chicago, and Harvard. In it Whitehead developed the brilliant new concepts of clarity and precision of statement which have since become fundamental principles of construction underlying all of the fields of modern intellectual analysis.

Author : David R. Olson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 1996-09-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521566445

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Modes of Thought addresses a topic of broad interest to the cognitive sciences. Its central focus is on the apparent contrast between the widely assumed 'psychological unity of mankind' and the facts of cognitive pluralism, the diverse ways in which people think and the developmental, cultural, technological and institutional factors which contribute to that diversity. Whether described in terms of modes of thought, cognitive styles, or sensibilities, the diversity of patterns of rationality to be found between cultures, in different historical periods, between individuals at different stages of development remains a central problem for a cultural psychology. Modes of Thought brings together anthropologists, historians, psychologists and educational theorists who manage to recognise the universality in thinking and yet acknowledge the cultural, historical and developmental contexts in which differences arise.

Author : Melissa Freeman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 1315516837

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Modes of Thinking for Qualitative Data Analysis argues for engagement with the conceptual underpinnings of five prominent analytical strategies used by qualitative researchers: Categorical Thinking, Narrative Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, Poetical Thinking, and Diagrammatical Thinking. By presenting such disparate modes of research in the space of a single text, Freeman not only draws attention to the distinct methodological and theoretical contributions of each, she also establishes a platform for choosing among particular research strategies by virtue of their strengths and limitations. Experienced qualitative researchers, novices, and graduate students from many disciplines will gain new insight from the theory-practice relationship of analysis advanced in this text.

Author : George Allan
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438441870

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A highly accessible reading of Whitehead's writings on education and their connection to his metaphysics.

Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 0029351707

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History of the human race from the point of view of mankind's changing ideas--sociological, cosmological, philosophica.

Author : Bruno Latour
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674728556

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In a new approach to philosophical anthropology, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern: If not modern, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? An Inquiry into Modes of Existence offers a new basis for diplomatic encounters with other societies at a time of ecological crisis.

Author : Herbert Alexander Simon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780300024326

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Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon has in the past quarter century been in the front line of the information-processing revolution; in fact, to a remarkable extent his and his colleagues' contributions have written the history of that revolution in cognitive psychology. Research in this burgeoning new branch of knowledge seeks to describe with precision the workings of the human mind in terms of a small number of basic mechanisms organized into strategies. Newly developed computer languages express theories of mental processes, so that computers can then simulate the predicted human behavior. This book brings together papers dating from the start of Simon's career to the present. Its focus is on modeling the chief components of human cognition and on testing these models experimentally. After considering basic structural elements of the human information-processing system (especially search, selective attention, and storage in memory), Simon builds from these components a system capable of solving problems, inducing rules and concepts, perceiving, and understanding. These essays describe a relatively austere, simple, and unified processing system capable of highly complex and various tasks. They provide strong evidence for an explanation of human thinking in terms of basic information processes.