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Cognitive Science Books
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 573,892 ratings — published 2011
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,960 ratings — published 1997
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 51,999 ratings — published 1979
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,389 ratings — published 1994
Consciousness Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,607 ratings — published 1991
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 242,429 ratings — published 1985
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,266 ratings — published 1991
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,167 ratings — published 2002
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,800 ratings — published 1980
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,863 ratings — published 1994
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 130,123 ratings — published 2008
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,169 ratings — published 2007
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 34,190 ratings — published 2011
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,937 ratings — published 1981
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 617,638 ratings — published 2005
I Am a Strange Loop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,550 ratings — published 2007
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 39,831 ratings — published 2007
The Society of Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,338 ratings — published 1985
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,459 ratings — published 2017
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 73,410 ratings — published 2007
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 — 1,281 ratings — published 1998
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,945 ratings — published 2004
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,402 ratings — published 1998
Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.86 — 161 ratings — published 2010
Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.66 — 241 ratings — published 1996
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,581 ratings — published 2010
Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 349 ratings — published 2000
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,947 ratings — published 2014
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,734 ratings — published 2012
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,239 ratings — published 2010
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,237 ratings — published 2009
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,168 ratings — published 2006
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (Philosophy of Mind)
by (shelved 30 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 307 ratings — published 2008
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 12,672 ratings — published 2017
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 — 10,865 ratings — published 2010
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 34,434 ratings — published 2016
Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 395 ratings — published 2000
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,117 ratings — published 2007
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 64,417 ratings — published 2012
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 87,172 ratings — published 1990
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,346 ratings — published 2013
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,871 ratings — published 2009
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,455 ratings — published 1996
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 83,259 ratings — published 2018
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 27,222 ratings — published 2016
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 22,397 ratings — published 2015
Hallucinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,000 ratings — published 2012
The Emperor's New Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,576 ratings — published 1989
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,510 ratings — published 1995
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,104 ratings — published 1987
“In short, it is difficult to see any convincing evidence for anything that will replace religion in human affairs. Religion is a deeply human trait. The content of religion will surely change over the longer term, but, for better or for worse, it is likely to remain with us.”
― How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
― How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
“We the experts in cognitive and behavioral sciences can predict human behavior but not human potential. What this means is that, though we can tell how a person is likely to feel, think and behave in a certain situation, we still cannot tell what a person is capable of. Hence the possibilities that a person holds in their neurons are immeasurable.”
― Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
― Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
