Steven Pinker: How The Mind Works (PDF)

” This book is intended for anyone who is curious about how the mind works. I didn’t write it only for professors and students, but I also didn’t write it only to “popularize science.” I am hoping that scholars and general readers both might profit from a bird’s-eye view of the mind and how it enters into human affairs.

At this high altitude there is little difference between a specialist and a thoughtful layperson because nowadays we specialists cannot be more than laypeople in most of our own disciplines, let alone neighboring ones.

Steven Pinker: How The Mind Works

I have not given comprehensive literature reviews or an airing of all sides to every debate, because they would have made the book unreadable, indeed, unliftable. My conclusions come fiom assess-ments-of the convergence of evidence fiom different fields and methods, and I have provided detailed citations so readers can follow them Up.”

CONTENTS:

Preface