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How the Mind Works (1999) 3 stars

How the Mind Works is a 1997 book by the Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, …

Review of 'How the Mind Works' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

There's a lot of interesting material in this book, but it's a brief survey of the territory, rather than an in-depth exploration. I felt like it got hand-wavey towards the end. A surprisingly large amount of the argument in grounded in evolution, and it clearly owes a debt to The Selfish Gene.