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The architecture of the mind [electronic resource] : massive modularity and the flexibility of thought / Peter Carruthers

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Carruthers, Peter, 1952-
Published
Oxford : Clarendon, 2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 462 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.The case for massively modular models of mind -- 2.The architecture of animal minds -- 3.Modules of the human mind -- 4.Modularity and flexibility : the first steps -- 5.Creative cognition in a modular mind -- 6.The cognitive basis of science -- 7.Distinctively human practical reason.
Summary
Providing a comprehensive development and defense of one of the guiding assumptions of evolutionary psychology: that the human mind is composed of a large number of semi-independent modules this book is a useful reading for those with an interest in the nature and organisation of the mind.
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ISBN
9780191708909 (ebook)
0191708909 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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