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How the Mind Works

By Steven Pinker

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| Hardcover | 9780713991307

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Book Description

In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interacContinue

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The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism

It belongs to the millennial mood to want to sum things up and see where we have gotten and point in the direction that further progress lies. Cognitive science has not been spared this impulse, so here are two books purporting to limn the state of t ... (read full critics)

lrb published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

The Set Within the Skull

If you want to find schizophrenia, go to a psychology department. Not among the staff (although some do seem to hear voices inaudible to the rest of us) but within the subject. It has gone from describing varieties of religious experience to censusin ... (read full critics)

nybooks published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

3 Reviews

Pinker is a clear thinker. If you've read about the mind before, you will know a lot of this but you will also find plausible explanations for various aspects of human nature that you might have taken for granted before. Sometimes I didn't know where a chapter was going but overall it's a good book.

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audioreader said on Nov 4, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

A brilliant book that helps us to gain insights about our lives through cognitive science and evolutionary biology. This fun book reminds us of our analogue limitations and that once we reach a logical conclusion, we might want to start again in a different frame of mind and see where that leads to ... (continue)

A brilliant book that helps us to gain insights about our lives through cognitive science and evolutionary biology. This fun book reminds us of our analogue limitations and that once we reach a logical conclusion, we might want to start again in a different frame of mind and see where that leads to.

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Gabiq said on Aug 1, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

This is THE book that influenced me to study cognitive science in undergrad. Steven Pinker writes really well and makes you think about how our mind works, and the good ol- nature vs nature debate. I also like his other book on The Language Instinct. This is a must read for anybody interested in cog ... (continue)

This is THE book that influenced me to study cognitive science in undergrad. Steven Pinker writes really well and makes you think about how our mind works, and the good ol- nature vs nature debate. I also like his other book on The Language Instinct. This is a must read for anybody interested in cognitive science or cognitive psychology

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Saxyscuba said on Aug 12, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback