The Mind's New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution by Howard Gardner, Reviewed by James I. Byrd

Abstract

Introduction:  Cognitivism is clearly an idea whose name has arrived, again.  This time the challenge of the Meno has been accepted by men and women armed with far more than footnotes to Plato.  In this book, Gardner does an excellent job of chronicling the truly exciting ideas and advances that have emerged in the last half century toward development of a new science of the mind.  The substitute of The Mind's New Science is incomplete.  Gardner's history of the cognitive revolution is also a strident call for a scientific reorganization akin in magnitude to that which emerged from the 17th century.