How the Mind Works
- ISBN-10
- 0393334775
- ISBN-13
- 9780393334777
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 661
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-06-22
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Steven Pinker
Description
An assessment of human thought and behavior explores conundrums from the mind's ability to perceive three dimensions to the nature of consciousness, in an account that draws on beliefs in cognitive science and evolutionary biology.
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- 2007-06
- 123 pages
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