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. How the Mind Works OTHER BOOKS BY STEVEN PINKER Language Learnability and Language Development how. frontmatter.qxd.
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 ...
... language; my previous book The Language Instinct covers the topic in a complementary way. This book is intended for anyone who is curious about how the mind works. I didn't write it only for professors and students, but I also didn't ...
... invaluable comments on the manuscript, offered constant advice, support, and kindness, and shared in the adventure. This book is dedicated to her, with love and gratitude. 5 My research on mind and language has been supported Preface xi.
Steven Pinker. 5. My research on mind and language has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (grant HD 18381), the National Science Foundation (grants 82-09540, 85-18774, and 91-09766), and the McDonnell-Pew Center for ...