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Frames of Mind
Gardner's 1983 landmark introducing the theory of multiple intelligences — the book that launched the framework this volume extends into the AI age.
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, published in 1983 by Basic Books, is Howard Gardner's landmark treatise proposing that human cognition comprises not a single general intelligence but at least seven — later expanded to eight — relatively autonomous capacities. Drawing on neuropsychology, developmental psychology, cognitive science, and cross-cultural anthropology, Gardner articulated the eight criteria by which candidate intelligences should be evaluated, demonstrated their application to linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal intelligences (with naturalistic intelligence added in 1999), and traced the educational and cultural implications of taking cognitive plurality seriously. The book reshaped progressive educational practice worldwide and provides the foundational framework this volume applies to the AI transformation.
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The book emerged from Gardner's work at Harvard Project Zero in the late 1970s, funded by the Bernard Van Leer Foundation to investigate human potential. Gardner's dual experience — studying prodigies at Project Zero and brain-damaged patients at the Boston VA Hospital — converged on the observation