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Apr 22, 2014 · Steven Pinker's book, "How the Mind Works", is a study of the human brain, how it works, and why it works the way it does. In eight chapters it reconstructs the brain from the bottom up, starting from the simplest of processes and combining them into the complex thoughts and behaviors we experience.
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How the Mind Works is a 1997 book by the Canadian-American cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, in which the author attempts to explain some of the human mind's poorly understood functions and quirks in evolutionary terms.
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- Consciousness Conundrums
- I Think, Therefore?
- Imagining Mary, and Her Language
- The Mind Through Literature
- Seeing Is Believing – Not
- Mind & Machine
Philosophers address the questions we care about for which there is no specialized – typically empirical – methodology, says Derk Pereboom, Susan Linn Sage Professor in Philosophy and Ethics and Stanford H. Taylor '50 Chair of the Sage School. In psychology, two of those questions philosophy addresses are, what’s the right model for cognition and h...
Dubreuil’s new book, “The Intellective Space,” focuses on the distinction between thinking and thought. There is a process in our minds, he says, that bypasses cognitive structure, which he calls “intellection.”His extensive research in experimental psychology, literature and philosophy led him to conclude that “we say more than we think; we think ...
Philosophers often use thought experiments to explore ideas; one of the most famous ones involves a character named Mary: Mary is a brilliant scientist of the future who lives in a room that only displays shades of black, white and gray. Mary has learned everything there is to know about the physical functioning of the world; she knows everything a...
One approach to understanding language and how it shapes (or has been shaped) by the mind is through the study of literature. Dubreuil’s current research rests at the intersection of cognitive science and poetry, what he calls the mental experience of poetry: how poetry is read and understood in the mind and how literature goes beyond simple cognit...
Nicholas Silins, associate professor of philosophy, examines the mind through questions relating to perception, drawing on the fields of philosophy, vision science and the theory of probability to answer how exactly we learn from our visual experiences of the world. “The way you see the world can directly give you evidence that the world is the way...
Technological metaphors have always been used to explain the mind: John Locke described an infant’s mind as a blank slate; Freud compared the mind to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. The current favorite metaphor is that the mind is a computer. John Hale, associate professor of linguistics, works in the area of computational linguistics, par...
Learn about the structure and functions of the brain, the central nervous system and the meninges. Explore the main parts of the brain, such as the cerebrum, brainstem and cerebellum, and their roles in thought, emotion, movement and more.
Jan 1, 2001 · How the Mind Works. Steven Pinker. 3.99. 20,459 ratings675 reviews. In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct.
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Jun 2, 2009 · How the Mind Works. Steven Pinker. W. W. Norton & Company, Jun 2, 2009 - Medical - 661 pages. In this book the author, a cognitive scientist explains how the brain evolved to store and use...
Sep 18, 2017 · In this extraordinary book, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 bestseller The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life.
