How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
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- 2010
- #Psychology #Philosophy
Yale psychologist Paul Bloom presents a striking new vision of the pleasures of everyday life.
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Number of Pages: 304
ISBN: 0393066320
ISBN-13: 9780393066326
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Chris Boutté @TheRewiredSoul
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May 23, 2022
- Curated in Weekly Reading List 5.23.22
Paul Bloom is one of my favorite authors, and this is one of the first books that I read by him, so I wanted to give it another read. This book is phenomenal and as usual, it blends philosophy, science, and psychology to make the reader think and question what we think we know about human nature. What I really love about this book is that Bloom picks different things that give us pleasure, presents theories from various people or conventional wisdom, and then he asks questions and points out how these theories don’t explain different aspects of pleasure. Bloom was the first one to introduce me to essentialism and so much more with this book. This book is more than worth the read, and I’ll most likely read it again in the coming years.