Volume 30, Number 13 · August 18, 1983
Thoughts on Thoughts
By Rosemary Dinnage
States of Mind
by Jonathan Miller
Pantheon, 316 pp., $14.95
Jonathan Miller's book is based on a British television series in which he quizzed fifteen 'psychological investigators,' and that includes philosophers, an anthropologist, and an art historian as well as white-coated men from the laboratories. The level of the dialogue is often quite abstruse yet always lucid, and greatly helped by the polymath interviewer, who wraps up the topics in happy analogies and crisp turns of phrase of his own. Even if one allows for possible bias in the interviewer's choice, it makes an interesting exposition of the current state of the art in the study of humankind.
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