Steven Pinker

How the Mind Works

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 479g
• ISBN-13: 9780141980782
• ISBN-10: 0141980788
• Artikelnr.: 41770688

Autorenporträt

Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won many prizes for his teaching, his research on language, cognition, and social relations, and his twelve books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature , Enlightenment Now, and Rationality. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one of Time's "100 Most Influential People in the World Today."