Table of Contents

Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
I The Rational Animal
1 Food, Sex, Politics, and the Rational Animal 3
2 The Enigma of Rationality: Fallen Angel or Risen Ape? 27
II Kinds of Minds 
3 Reflexes, Homeostasis, and the Autonomic Mind 41
4 The Instinctive Mind 49
5 The Associative Mind: More than Instincts, Less than Reason 71
6 The Reasoning Mind: Propositional Attitudes and Coherence 95
III Reasoning with the Cognitive Mind
7 Logical Inference: Heuristic and Analytical Systems 125
8 Conceptual Inference in the Real World: From Science to Politics 143
IV The Tethered Mind 
9 The Instinctive Mind Resurrected: Modularity, Reciprocity, and Blended Response 161
10 Kinds of Brains: Of Mice, Monkeys, and Men 191
11 Feelings: Chocolate, Lust, and Coherence 221
12 Control Structures: Who Is in Charge of the Tethered Mind? 253
V What Color Is Your Bubble? Why Changing Minds Is Hard
13 When Failures of Belief Revision Are Less than Motivated Reasoning or Sloppy Reasoning 281
14 Global Belief Revision Is Constrained by Neural Maturation 309
VI What Follows from the Tethered Mind? 
15 Concerns, Consequences, and Conclusions 331
Notes 341
Bibliography 353
Index 403

About the Author

Vinod Goel is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at York University in Toronto and the author of Sketches of Thought (MIT Press).