Language, Cognition, and Human Nature
Collects for the first time Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker is a highly eminent cognitive scientist, and these essays emphasize the importance of language and its connections to cognition, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-932874-1
- EAN: 9780199328741
- Produktnummer: 22183822
- Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B15.6 cm x D3.0 cm 726 g
- Abbildungen: 23 b&w
- Gewicht: 726
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, an eminent cognitive scientist, and the author of many popular books that synthesize large bodies of knowledge of cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and behavioral genetics into a comprehensive picture of how the mind works, how it evolved, and how we ought to bring these ideas to bear on theories of politics and morality. His scholarly work has won many prizes, including theTroland Award from the National Academy of Sciences, the Henry Dale Prize from the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the George Miller Prize from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and the Early Career Award and McCandless Prize from the American Psychological Association. He is Chair of the UsagePanel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and also writes frequently in the popular press, including The New York Times, Prospect, Slate, and The New Republic.
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