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The architecture of the mind : massive modularity and the flexibility of thought / Peter Carruthers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carruthers, Peter, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology--Philosophy.
- Psychology.
- Modularity (Psychology).
- Brain.
- Mental Processes.
- Philosophy.
- Brain--physiology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Mental Processes.
- Philosophy.
- Brain--physiology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 462 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Massive modularity and the flexibility of thought
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- The case for massively modular models of mind
- The architecture of animal minds
- Modules of the human mind
- Modularity and flexibility : the first steps
- Creative cognition in a modular mind
- The cognitive basis of science
- Distinctively human practical reason.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [418]-448) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-170890-9
- 1-281-14901-2
- 0-19-152581-2
- 9786611149017
- 1-4356-2475-0
- OCLC:
- 191672072
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