ABSTRACT
One of the many remarkable qualities about Gordon Bower is the breadth of his intellectual interests. From a brief perusal of Gordon’s contributions, it is readily apparent that he has not worked in one narrow area. Instead, his efforts have produced an unusually broad set of empirical findings across many literatures. Perhaps even more significantly, Gordon has entertained diverse theoretical perspectives in the process. Rather than adhering rigidly to a single position, he has worked with multiple perspectives that exhibit significant tensions between them. Even when it has not been entirely clear how these perspectives might be reconciled, Gordon has entertained them inclusively. Perhaps he believed that
there was something inherently correct about each perspective, and that they all could and should be integrated eventually.
