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In "The Stuff of Thought," Pinker says his new book is part of both his gigs.
"The Stuff of Thought" explores the duality of human cognition: the modesty of its construction and the majesty of its constructive power.
In "The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature," Pinker explores the complicated ways that language and thought relate to each other.
This is his 13th book, following the success of "The Stuff of Thought" (2007), which looks at how we put our thoughts and feelings into words (reviewed by The Economist here).
In books like "How the Mind Works," "The Blank Slate" and "The Stuff of Thought," Pinker has argued that evolution shaped the basic design of our brain, and hence our cognitive and emotional faculties.
Pinker later illustrated the manner in which the structure and semantics of language reflect the human perception of reality in The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window into Human Nature (2007).
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As another, one might appeal to H2O and XYZ (the stuff of philosophical thought experiments, the water look-alike substance found on twin-earth).
This is potent stuff, best thought of as a powerful political weapon that could conceivably be used for good or for evil, and by the Republicans or the Democrats.
It's nice to see that the Japanese not only get it, but hold it in as high esteem as the Stuff on My Cat school of thought.
Cabanis, a late 18th-century French materialist, is no longer taken seriously, because to most philosophers it does not make sense to think of thought as a stuff.
He knew that they were the stuff of most people's thoughts, more likely than ever to surface in times of crisis.
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