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...
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Steven Pinker (category Philosophers of mind)
Pinker is the author of nine books for general audiences. The Language Instinct (1994), How the Mind Works (1997), Words and Rules (2000), The Blank Slate...
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consider how the mind works like a computer. In this way, the mind functions like a biological computer responsible for analyzing information from the environment...
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How Propaganda Works is a 2015 non-fiction book by Jason Stanley, published by Princeton University Press. Reviewer Martin van Tunen described the book...
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Merlin Donald (category Canadian expatriate academics in the United States)
computational theory of mind) may be inadequate to understanding how the mind works. He is also known as the proponent of the mimetic theory of speech...
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Chinese room (redirect from Minds, Brains, and Programs)
The Chinese room argument holds that a computer executing a program cannot have a mind, understanding, or consciousness, regardless of how intelligently...
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Totem and Taboo in The Standard edition of the Complete Psychological works of Sigmund Freud, Vol XIII Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works. "Baby duck syndrome:...
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since they have dissimilar properties. The Mind Doesn't Work That Way, a reaction to Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works, is devoted to this subject. Fodor...
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How The Universe Works is a science documentary television series that provides scientific explanations about the inner workings of the universe and everything...
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philosophy of mind, the computational theory of mind (CTM), also known as computationalism, is a family of views that hold that the human mind is an information...
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Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom (2 editions 2009, 2020: Jossey-Bass) When Can You Trust the Experts?: How to Tell Good...
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learning. Another approach to the relation between mind and matter uses empirical observation to study how the brain works and which brain areas and processes...
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Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world. The mind–body problem...
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Fin de siècle (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
Romanticism, but relied on traits exhibited to suggest how the mind works, as does symbolism. The concept of genius returned to popular consciousness around...
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Prometheus Rising (section Influence on other works)
mind control and mental imprinting, and provides mind exercises at the end of every chapter, with the goal of giving the reader more control over how...
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themselves individualistically. The study of the human mind in diseased states provides valuable insight into how the mind works in healthy individuals. A multitude...
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PMID 11488376. Retrieved 16 June 2008. Pinker, Steve (1999). "How the Mind Works". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 882 (1). WW Norton: 386–89....
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number of studies. The goals of MCT are first to discover what patients believe about their own thoughts and about how their mind works (called metacognitive...
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Music (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
S2CID 39481097. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 May 2010. Retrieved 24 April 2014. Pinker, Steven (1997). How the Mind Works. New York: W. W. Norton. p...
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The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students is a 1987 book by the philosopher...
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Growing Up bin Laden (category Works about Osama bin Laden)
bin Laden and how his mind works, the book is a valuable supplement to the existing libraries." "Growing Up bin Laden". Archived from the original on 2018-10-18...
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Evolution of human intelligence (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
How the Mind Works. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 21–31, 60–93, 179–198. ISBN 978-0393318487. Pinker S (2016) [2002]. The Blank Slate: The Modern...
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Spandrel (biology) (section Criticism of the term)
Botha, 2001 Pinker, Steven (1997). How the Mind Works. Penguin. pp. 528, 524. ISBN 0-14-024491-3. Robin Dunbar, "On the Evolutionary Function of Song and...
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Margaret Mead (category Presidents of the International Society for the Systems Sciences)
Mead, and the Eighteenth-Century Controversy over Polynesian Society". Pacific Studies. 11 (3): 1–19. Pinker, Steven A. (1997). How the Mind Works. ISBN 978-0-393-04535-2...
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Dawkins stated "The Blank Slate is ... a stylish piece of work. I won't say it is better than The Language Instinct or How the Mind Works, but it is as...
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Philosophy of music (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
Kierkegaard examines the profundity of music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the sensual nature of Don Giovanni. In his 1997 book How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker...
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Robert Trivers (category Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Rebel, The Origins of Virtue, The Moral Animal, and my own How the Mind Works. Each of these books is based in large part on Trivers's ideas and the explosion...
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Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (category Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction–winning works)
Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills (1993), and The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by...
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George Lakoff (category Linguists from the United States)
both about how the mind works and how the world works. Given that the mind works by frames and metaphors, the challenge is to use such a mind to accurately...
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion is a 2012 social psychology book by Jonathan Haidt, in which the author describes...
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