The social mind

Although the authors come from very different traditions (respectively, philosophy of science and social psychology; medical ethics and philosophy of psychology; and linguistics), these two books make remarkably similar points. The vision they express that psychological phenomena like emotions, memory and thought are essentially social types is in the air, and both books provide useful articulations. Comments Reprinted from Theory and Psychology, Volume 7, Issue 3, June 1997, pages 422-424. NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Stanton Wortham was affiliated with Bates College. Currently June 2007, he is a faculty member of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. The author asserts his right to include this material in ScholarlyCommons@Penn. This review is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/gse_pubs/114