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Cognitive Science Books
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 592,444 ratings — published 2011
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,108 ratings — published 1997
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,705 ratings — published 1979
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,546 ratings — published 1994
Consciousness Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,697 ratings — published 1991
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 247,391 ratings — published 1985
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,291 ratings — published 1991
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,361 ratings — published 2002
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,973 ratings — published 1980
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,007 ratings — published 1994
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 623,583 ratings — published 2005
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 34,579 ratings — published 2011
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,970 ratings — published 1981
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 131,441 ratings — published 2008
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 40,348 ratings — published 2007
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,225 ratings — published 2007
I Am a Strange Loop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,697 ratings — published 2007
The Society of Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,365 ratings — published 1985
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,287 ratings — published 1998
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,604 ratings — published 1998
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,723 ratings — published 2007
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 32,194 ratings — published 2017
Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 354 ratings — published 2000
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,975 ratings — published 2004
Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.67 — 246 ratings — published 1996
Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.86 — 163 ratings — published 2010
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (Philosophy of Mind)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 312 ratings — published 2008
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,126 ratings — published 2010
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,212 ratings — published 2017
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,977 ratings — published 2014
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,284 ratings — published 2009
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,049 ratings — published 2006
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,925 ratings — published 2010
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,257 ratings — published 2010
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,805 ratings — published 2012
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 35,138 ratings — published 2016
Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 397 ratings — published 2000
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,936 ratings — published 2020
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,077 ratings — published 2009
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 88,987 ratings — published 1990
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,162 ratings — published 2016
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,274 ratings — published 2007
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,382 ratings — published 2013
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,448 ratings — published 2012
The Emperor's New Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,669 ratings — published 1989
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,114 ratings — published 1987
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 84,683 ratings — published 2018
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 22,939 ratings — published 2015
Hallucinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,383 ratings — published 2012
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,732 ratings — published 2017
“Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings.”
― Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
― Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
“People are Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs) of their actions [and previous selves], with a varying number of data points.
You(Today) = Acts(Today)*a + You(Yesterday)*b
You are an expanding fuzzy network!”
― Fuzzy on the Dark Side: Approximate Thinking, and How the Mists of Creativity and Progress Can Become a Prison of Illusion
You(Today) = Acts(Today)*a + You(Yesterday)*b
You are an expanding fuzzy network!”
― Fuzzy on the Dark Side: Approximate Thinking, and How the Mists of Creativity and Progress Can Become a Prison of Illusion
