re: cultural statement of education and economy

Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:54:08 -0800 (PST)

Bill-

Here is a place where I feel like I needed a new header. I know
you are posting for discussion but I felt awkward continuing to use
the thread starter. So maybe I am breaking a kind of continuity
that is important and my idea about new headers is wrong.But anyway.

Apart from any other misgivings I would have about this statement is
its confident claim of the accomplishments of cognitive science to guid
the "new forms" that the authors say comes as cause/effect of economic
change. With the exception of a few practitioners who are disciplinary
outliers, cognitive science has an impovrished conception of
activity/culture/ as constituitive of human nature.

I guess on this point, while I am definitely confused and in California,
I do not feel confused about this point. I probably just havn't gotten
around to it. :-)
mike