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 The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker
Newest Review: ... have been touched on in the previous books by Steven Pinker, but a surprisingly large part of it feels new. Pinker starts ... more  ... big, by putting a price on the semantics of the toppling WTC towers ($3.5bn, roughly) and then presents a dazzling exposition of various ways the meanings and usage of words illuminates the mechanics of thought.
The first part of the book is devoted to basic units of thinking as revealed by language, and with the specifically human concepts (and obsessions) of time, space and causality as well as the consequences of these concepts for our personal and social lives. We all probably know that the ideas of space , time, for...more |
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The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker: Through Their Words You'll Know Them (1213 words)
by - written on 12/02/08 (Very useful, 74 readings)
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Allen Lane had a rather diverse and truly impressive line-up in the autumn of 2007, including the topical Alan Greenspan and a rather groundbreaking Naomi Klein. However, it's the latest offering from Steven Pinker that's likely to stand the test of time - if a label of an "instant classic" was ever justifiably applied, it should be applied to "The Stuff of Thought". A culmination of more than a decade of Pinker's popular science writing and the crowning glory of both his language trilogy, encompassing 'The Language Instinct' and 'Words and Rules' and his mind & human nature trilogy with 'How the Mind Works' and 'The Blank Slate', ... Read the complete review
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