Volume 54, Number 14 · September 27, 2007
How You Think
By Colin McGinn
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
Viking, 499 pp., $29.95
The Stuff of Thought is Steven Pinker's fifth popular book in thirteen years, and by now we know what to expect. It is long, packed with information, clear, witty, attractively written, and generally persuasive. The topic, as earlier, is language and the mind—specifically, how language reflects human psychological nature. What can we learn about the mind by examining, with the help of linguistics and experimental psychology, the language we use to express ourselves?
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