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The Problems with Steven Pinker's Optimism
The limitations of Steven Pinker's optimism - Nature
I share Pinker's optimism that this could be our best century, in which poverty and many of the challenges humanity has historically confronted ...
Why was Steven Pinker so lambasted for his 'optimism' on ... - Reddit
Put simply, his rosy optimism masks any kind of critique or criticism of the failures of liberalism. He doesn't address actual problems that ...
Steven Pinker's Misguided Optimism | The New Republic
The Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker has long been a loud votary of progress. In his 2011 book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, he proposed ...
A Pep Talk from Steven Pinker | Scientific American
All in all, Pinker did what I'd hoped he would do. He defended his data-driven optimism in a way that encourages social and environmental ...
Steven Pinker and the Failure of New Optimism ft. We're in Hell
I've been gone for a while, and this is why! Hope you enjoy my critique of Pinker's economics. 0:00 Intro 3:11 Part 1 (i) Poverty and ...
Steven Pinker's ideas are fatally flawed. These eight graphs show why.
... optimistic vision of ... Which brings us to another fundamental issue in Pinker's narrative of progress: who actually gets to enjoy it?
Steven Pinker's book Enlightenment Now is a huge hit. Too bad it ...
Pinker's hyper-optimism and faith in progress have little to do with the actual views of Enlightenment thinkers. Scholars who point that out aren't enemies of ...
The Political Problems with Steven Pinker's Book 'Enlightenment Now'
Excessive optimism of Pinker's brand could engender a self-destructive and uncritical ambivalence preventing people from identifying problems ...
Some people even go so far as to say that progress itself is the problem and that a drastic pruning back of the human species, even one brought ...
The New Optimist Movement Has a Numbers Problem - Truthdig
How Steven Pinker and his merry band of extreme optimists downplay the persistence of widespread human suffering and misery.
Are optimists the realists? - Harvard Gazette
Steven Pinker: I've often been called an optimist because of the ... So once we detach optimism from reality, we have a problem.
New Optimism Ignores Our Potential for Catastrophe
New Optimists such as Steven Pinker emphasize the triumphs of modern civilization ... The problem with New Optimism is that it focuses ...
The Problems with Steven Pinker's Optimism - RealClearScience
The Problems with Steven Pinker's Optimism ... Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now builds on his 2011 The Better Angels of Our Nature (Viking) in ...
Review of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now - Shtetl-Optimized
I have no doubt that conditional optimism is a useful stance to adopt, in this case as in many others. The trouble, for me, is the gap between ...
Steven Pinker Is Unashamed to Be Optimistic and Pro-Human
Pinker acknowledges future challenges but remains unwavering in his belief that by keeping true to the ideas of the Enlightenment, the world can ...
Steven Pinker's Radical Brand of 'Contingent Optimism'
The Harvard University psychologist argues humans have the capability to deal with the huge challenges we face. But will we? That's a different question.
The Cruel Optimism of Steven Pinker (Featuring Unlearning ...
Steven Pinker is the face of the New Optimism movement but who and what is that optimism for? Why is being happy good at all?
Steven Pinker on the Past, Present, and Future of Optimism
One problem is the nature of journalism, which covers events, not trends: Bad things can happen quickly, but good things aren't built in a day, ...
Graphic evidence: Steven Pinker's optimism on trial - The Guardian
The eminent psychology professor updates the 100 graphs that appeared in his 2011 book The Better Angels of Our Nature, showing that every form of violence is ...
Pinker's Enlightenment and Liberal World Order - The Duck of Minerva
Psychologist Steven Pinker's new book, Enlightenment Now: The Case for ... Pinker's optimism, however, is based on a poor reading of ...