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Cognitive Classics

Understand how the mind works.

Wired for Survival Wired for Survival

 

Margaret M. Polski

FT Press, 2008

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Why do you do the things you do? It’s not for the reasons you think.

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The Modularity of Mind The Modularity of Mind

 

Jerry A. Fodor

MIT Press, 1983

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How do people think? Analysts of our mental processes debate how modular our minds are, and explain why it matters.

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The Conscious Mind The Conscious Mind

 

David J. Chalmers

Oxford UP, 1997

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Your experience of consciousness cannot be explained by physical reasons alone – so how can it be explained?

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Brain-Wise Brain-Wise

Patricia Smith Churchland

MIT Press, 2002

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Neuroscience meets philosophy on controversial proving grounds: free will, the existence of God, and who are you, anyway?

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