Steven Pinker

Broschiertes Buch

How the Mind Works

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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."

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