How the Mind Works
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How the Mind Works
| Author | Steven Pinker |
|---|---|
| Published | 1997 |
| Pages | 667 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Pinker’s synthesis of computational and evolutionary psychology — vision, reasoning, emotion and social life treated as engineered solutions to adaptive problems. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @SpencrGreenberg — named in the thread answering “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?”, June 2025, as “How the Mind Works — Pinker (1999)”. Full list: A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet).
- Li Lu — on Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, in the section on Science, Philosophy, Evolution, History of Human Civilization, Human History.
Connections
- Steven Pinker — Author.
- Psychology — The field.
- Evolution — The explanatory frame.
- Neuroscience — The layer below.
- A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.