How the Mind Works

Pinker, Steven

ISBN 10: 0141980788 / ISBN 13: 9780141980782

Edité par PENGUIN BOOKS, 1994

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• Titre: How the Mind Works
• Éditeur: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0141980788
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780141980782
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• 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'.