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Author Carruthers, Peter, 1952-

Title The architecture of the mind : massive modularity and the flexibility of thought / Peter Carruthers
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 462 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-448) and indexes
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Subject Psychology -- Philosophy.
Modularity (Psychology)
Brain.
Human information processing.
Mental Processes
Brain
Brain -- physiology
brains.
PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body.
Human information processing
Brain
Modularity (Psychology)
Psychology -- Philosophy
Filosofie van de geest.
Hersenfuncties.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191525810
0191525812
9780191708909
0191708909