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Cognitive Science Books
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 594,011 ratings — published 2011
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,131 ratings — published 1997
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,779 ratings — published 1979
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,571 ratings — published 1994
Consciousness Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,707 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 — 247,875 ratings — published 1985
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,292 ratings — published 1991
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,381 ratings — published 2002
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,989 ratings — published 1980
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,029 ratings — published 1994
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 624,100 ratings — published 2005
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 34,623 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 — 5,971 ratings — published 1981
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 131,579 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 — 40,404 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 — 11,232 ratings — published 2007
I Am a Strange Loop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,710 ratings — published 2007
The Society of Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,368 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 — 20,614 ratings — published 1998
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,859 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 — 32,336 ratings — published 2017
Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.82 — 354 ratings — published 2000
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,977 ratings — published 2004
Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.67 — 247 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 — 166 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 — 313 ratings — published 2008
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 33,171 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 — 13,273 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 — 1,983 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 — 3,291 ratings — published 2009
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,102 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 — 10,932 ratings — published 2010
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,260 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 — 7,810 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 — 35,199 ratings — published 2016
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,102 ratings — published 2009
Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 396 ratings — published 2000
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,963 ratings — published 2020
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 89,195 ratings — published 1990
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,270 ratings — published 2016
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,113 ratings — published 1987
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,291 ratings — published 2007
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,387 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 — 66,667 ratings — published 2012
The Emperor's New Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,675 ratings — published 1989
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 84,869 ratings — published 2018
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 22,992 ratings — published 2015
Hallucinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,417 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 — 3,742 ratings — published 2017
“It is not about whether you have free will, rather it is about whether you have enough experience to make the best possible wilful decision in the current moment of life.”
― What is Mind?
― What is Mind?
“The incompleteness of our knowledge is often addressed with different extrapolations and assumptions, sacrificing precision for ease, and reflecting the self onto the world.
This is not always bad, but it can – easily – become tricky.”
― Fuzzy on the Dark Side: Approximate Thinking, and How the Mists of Creativity and Progress Can Become a Prison of Illusion
This is not always bad, but it can – easily – become tricky.”
― Fuzzy on the Dark Side: Approximate Thinking, and How the Mists of Creativity and Progress Can Become a Prison of Illusion
