How the Mind Works (Paperback)

Steven Pinker

ISBN 10: 0141980788 / ISBN 13: 9780141980782

Edité par Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2015

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Paperback. How the Mind Worksexplores every aspect of mental life, showing that our minds are not a mystery, but a system of organs of computation designed by natural selection.\"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache. Powerful and gripping. To have read the book is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche. .a glittering tour de force\" - Spectator\"Why do memories fade? 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\" - Sunday Times Why do we laugh? What makes memories fade? Why do people believe in ghosts? How the Mind Works explores every aspect of mental life, showing that our minds are not a mystery, but a system of organs of computation designed by natural selection. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

N° de réf. du vendeur 9780141980782

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• Titre: How the Mind Works (Paperback)
• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd, London
• Date de parution: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0141980788
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780141980782
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: new

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Synopsis

Why do we laugh?
What makes memories fade?
Why do people believe in ghosts?

How the Mind Works explores every aspect of mental life, showing that our minds are not a mystery, but a system of organs of computation designed by natural selection.

À propos de l?auteur

Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive scientist. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. He has won many prizes for his research, teaching, and his eleven books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary doctorates, one of Foreign Policy's 'World's Top 100 Public Intellectuals' and Time's '100 Most Influential People in the World Today'.