HOW THE MIND WORKS
Steven Pinker
W. W. Norton & Co., 1999
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: After reading this book, the reader will understand one synthesis of cognitive science and evolutionary psychology.
This book uses 'reverse engineering,' looking at how natural selection shaped mental abilities when humans were hunter-gatherers, to understand how information is used and stored now. The mental modules natural selection provided to enable our ancestors to solve their problems became the bases of perception, reasoning, emotion, social relations, art, music, literature, philosophy, and religion. Pinker posits that good vision, group living, free hands, and hunting worked together to allow reasoning to develop. This book won the LOS ANGELES TIMES Book Prize, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, and was a NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book of the Year.
Steven Pinker, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author or co-editor of seven other books, including THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT.
19 CE credits; 660 pages
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