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How the Mind Works

Steven Pinker

  • 667 pages · about 11 hours
  • First published 1997
  • 23 editions
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1 About this book

Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? Pinker's objective in this erudite account is to explore the nature and history of the human mind...He explores computations and evolutions, and then considers how the mind lets us "see, think, feel, interact, and pursue higher callings like art, religion and philosophy"".

Good for readers who want: philosophy, psychology, evolution, and a long read.

  • Philosophy
  • Neuropsychology
  • Psychology
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Human evolution
  • Evolution
  • Neurosciences cognitives
  • Biological Evolution

2 About Steven Pinker

Born 1954

Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker is the Johnstone Family professor of psychology at Harvard University. Pinker specializes in visual cognition and developmental linguistics, as well as a number of experimental topics.

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