Rethinking How We Age
C. G. Prado
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Rethinking How We Age

A New View of the Aging Mind

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?Using a crisp and economical style, Prado (Queen's University, Ontario) argues for a new way of conceptualizing aging and a revised vocabulary in speaking about aging. In the spirit of R. Rorty--bypassing the correspondists and referentialists--Prado suggests not a new theory but an innovative pragmatic approach. He challenges as prejudicial--and empirically unfounded--the assumptions that the adaptive capacity of the aged necessarily decreases and that their perspective narrows. In the tradition of H. Gadamar, Prado argues that a self-creative process of narrative is used in organizing exper...