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Steven Pinker, HOW THE MIND WORKS, post 1

Minds eventually understand that other minds exist, with their own beliefs. What would it be like to think of other people not having minds?

Unlocking the Mind: 21 Steven Pinker Quotes to Inspire Critical ...

Pinker's work primarily focuses on visual cognition and psycholinguistics, studying how people learn and use language. His research has greatly contributed to ...

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Can it help you understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? These are the goals of Rationality, Steven Pinker's follow-up to ...

Steven Pinker and the Internet | ROUGH TYPE

As someone who has enjoyed and learned a lot from Steven Pinker's books about language and cognition, I was disappointed to see the Harvard ...

Harvard's Pinker makes case for human progress in new book

In his 2011 book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that despite ...

Quotes by Steven Pinker (Author of Enlightenment Now) - Goodreads

Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and ...

Steven Pinker Thinks Your Sense of Imminent Doom Is Wrong

Your new book is driven by the idea that it would be good if more people thought more rationally. But people don't think they're irrational. So ...

Steven Pinker on Doomerism - OER Project Community

I always try to impart my best second rate Pinker when we get past WWII and the students are a little bummed out by all the atrocities. In the ...

A Conversation with Prof. Steven Pinker - Thought Economics

A Conversation with Prof. Steven Pinker · Q: What is enlightenment thinking, and when did it emerge? · [Steven Pinker]: · Q: Why do we see societal pushback ...

Rationality Requires Incentives: An Interview with Steven Pinker

That's probably unrealistic. So maybe we have to think about what kind of institutions and things would actually appeal to people that can be ...

Review Excerpts for Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker

Pinker is a paragon of exactly the kind of intellectual honesty and courage we need to restore conversation and community, and the students are right to revere ...

Steven Pinker On Why Humanity Has Never Had It Better - WBUR

He argues that humanity has never had it so good and, when you look at what the data say about the human condition, you'll see that health, ...

Steven Pinker: “I Manage My Controversy Portfolio Carefully”

By cataloging the steady march of human progress, Harvard psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker has become a very public intellectual.

Unenlightened thinking: Steven Pinker's embarrassing new book is ...

The message of Pinker's book is that the Enlightenment produced all of the progress of the modern era and none of its crimes. This is why he ...

Steven Pinker | Thoughts of an intellectual - IntellectInterviews

Steven Pinker shares his thoughts with us on topics like the origin of language, identity politics, free will, climate change denial and ...

Steve Pinker on why smart people believe stupid things (and much ...

Michael talks to him about why smart people believe stupid things; the psychology of conspiracy theories; free speech and academic freedom.

Steven Pinker: Why Our World Is Getting Better - 52 Insights

in your book, “that everything is amazing, but no one is happy”. So there's clearly a gap in the appreciation we have for our lives. Why do you ...

Steven Pinker - Wikipedia

Enlightenment Now (2018) further argues that the human condition has generally improved over recent history because of reason, science, and humanism. The nature ...

In conversation with… Steven Pinker | by Mosaic - Medium

Once more, Pinker navigates his way through my critique with ease. All attempts to puncture his unique brand of rational optimism — his ...

Steven Pinker: Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things

We talk to Pinker about why smart people believe stupid things, the psychology of conspiracy theories, free speech and academic freedom.