How the Mind Works"A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear." —New York Review of Books In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. What makes us rational—and why are we so often irrational? How do we see in three dimensions? What makes us happy, afraid, angry, disgusted, or sexually aroused? Why do we fall in love? And how do we grapple with the imponderables of morality, religion, and consciousness? How the Mind Works synthesizes the most satisfying explanations of our mental life from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and other fields to explain what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and contemplate the mysteries of life. This edition of Pinker's bold and buoyant classic is updated with a new foreword by the author. |
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Steven Pinker. OTHER BOOKS BY STEVEN PINKER Language Learnability and Language Development Visual Cognition (ed.) Connections and Symbols (ed., with Jacques Mehler) Learnability and Cognition Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (ed., with Beth ...
... Cognitive neuroscience. 2. Neuropsychology. 3. Natural selection. 4. Human evolution. 5. Psychology. I. Title. QP360.5.P56 1997 153—DC21 97–1855 CIP W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110 http://www ...
... Cognitive Sciences at MIT for enabling me to take a sabbatical leave, and to Loy Lytle and Aaron Ettenberg of the Department of Psychology and to Patricia Clancy and Marianne Mithun of the Department of Linguistics at UCSB for inviting ...
... 18381), the National Science Foundation (grants 82-09540, 85-18774, and 91-09766), and the McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT. How the Mind Works 1 Standard Equipment W hy would xii HOW THE MIND WORKS.
... cognitive science and artificial intelligence of the technical challenges overcome by our mundane mental activity is one of the great revelations of science, an awakening of the imagination comparable to learning that the universe is ...