The mind on paper: reading, consciousness and rationality

Part I. Introduction : reading, writing and the mind. Awakening : reading and consciousness

Part II. Theories of the relation between writing and mind. Inventing writing : the history of writing and the ontogeny of writing

Dewey and the new pragmatists : reading, writing and mind

Vygotsky and the Vygotskians

The cognitive science of metarepresentation

Part III. Reading and the invention of language about language. Phonemes and the alphabet

The discovery of words and thinking about words

Sentences and logic

Prose and rational argument

The testing of rationality and the rationality of testing

Part IV. The implications and uses of metarepresentational language. The psychology and pedagogy of reading

The psychology and pedagogy of rationality

Part V. Conclusions. Reading, consciousness and rationality.