En esta obra Steven Pinker nos aporta una versión totalmente distinta de cómo funciona la mente a través del lenguaj, y nos muestra cómo nuestras palabras pueden revelar el corazón mismo de la naturaleza humana. Nuestros lenguajes tienen un modelo de sexualidad inscrito en ellos…
Definiciones y desarrollo de la inteligencia - De la observación a la clasificación - Cambios, ordenamiento y transformaciones - Clasificación jerárquica - Análisis, síntesis y evaluación.
Esta obra reúne una colección de herramientas del pensamiento -las favoritas de Dennett- con el fin de equipar al lector con medios para pensar sobre cualquier tema. Su presentación va de lo general a lo particular: primero presenta una docena de herramientas universales, para c…
Encyclopedia of the mind
It's hard to conceive of a topic of more broad and personal interest than the study of the mind. In addition to its traditional investigation by the disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, the mind has also been a focus of study in the fields of philosophy, econ…
In this work the author, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, has brought together his many years of research and thinking in one book. He explains the two syste…
What are emotions, where do they originate and how are they brought into being? While from antiquity to early modernity, affects or passions were mostly conceived of as external physiological forces which act upon a passive subject, modern conceptions generally locate emotions w…
In 1988, Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn challenged connectionist theorists to explain the systematicity of cognition. In a highly influential critical analysis of connectionism, they argued that connectionist explanations, at best, can only inform us about details of the neural …
