The literate mind : a study of its scope and limitations /
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...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 interent
- Grounding the literacy episteme
- The limitations of the literate mind
- The consequences of literacy.