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Nature 450, 788 (6 December 2007) | doi:10.1038/450788a; Published online 5 December 2007
Thought: a different perspective
Marc D. Hauser1
- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Patricia Churchland's review of Steven Pinker's latest book The Stuff of Thought ('Poetry in motion' Nature 450, 29–30; 2007) offers scant information about the book, and what there is is incorrect. Churchland instead presents her own views on how molecular biology and neurobiology provide challenges to Pinker, but in so doing she undermines the successes of these disciplines.
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