October 5, 2001

Toward the Founding of Cognitive Social Science

By MARK TURNER

Early in April of 1996, my wife and I arrived, curious and invisible, at a research institute we intended, as prospective residents, to study. A small place, about 200 people, and relatively remote, it was its own world. We were intruders, professional ones, uninvited and unannounced, but also practically unnoticed, since the Institute for Advanced Study's annual purge of most of its population and replenishment with fresh recruits make it a gathering of interchangeable anonymities. Their