The Construction of Reality

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Summary

This book presents an integrated account of how humans 'construct' reality through interaction with the social and physical world around them.

Preface
1. Posing the problem
2. The intelligence of the artificial
3. Schema theory
4. Relating mind and brain
5. Freedom
6. Freud on psychology and religion
7. Schemas: from the individual to the social
8. Language, metaphor, and a new epistemology
9. Interpretation and reality
10. Religion as social schemas
11. The great schemas
12. Secular schemas
References
Author index
Subject index.