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What do you think of Steven Pinker? - Quora

He's a good writer, and writes with passion and precision. He also covers sweeping themes and is usually correct on facts. You don't have to ...

What's wrong with Steven Pinker? : r/slatestarcodex - Reddit

Are there serious, fundamental problems with the way Pinker sees the world that I'm not aware of? I've read a few of his books (The Blank Slate, ...

Enlightenment and Progress, or why Steven Pinker is wrong

The result is that we don't know how well off we are. In Pinker's own italicised original: “The world has made spectacular progress in every ...

I like Steven Pinker's new book. Here's why

Pinker's resolution, I think, is that science is progressing (that's all the stuff in chapters 3-8 that can help the readers of his book ...

Steven Pinker's ideas are fatally flawed. These eight graphs show why.

First, he argues that “income inequality is not a fundamental component of well-being,” pointing to recent research that people are comfortable ...

Why I Believe Steven Pinker is Wrong About How Good Things Are ...

As I covered in this earlier piece, despite having massive respect for Steven Pinker, and loving his latest book, Englightenment Now, I think ...

Steven Pinker Has His Reasons - Nautilus Magazine

“We are all intuitive physicists, biologists, engineers ... What do you think? ADVERTISEMENT. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free ...

the celebrity scientist at the centre of the culture wars | Steven Pinker

“People tend to approach challenges in one of two ways – as problem-solving or as conflict,” Pinker, who appreciates the force of a tidy ...

Review of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now - Shtetl-Optimized

Save 300 million people from smallpox, and you can expect in return a lecture about your naïve and arrogant scientistic reductionism. Or, ...

Review: Steven Pinker's “Enlightenment Now” - words and dirt

All of us are inescapably embedded in Pinker's “real society,” and our ability to intelligently acknowledge and navigate this messy reality can ...

'What could be more interesting than how the mind works ...

The brain is Steven Pinker's playground. A cognitive scientist and experimental psychologist, Pinker is fascinated by language, behavior, ...

Steven Pinker's Free Will Blind Spot - New Ideal

Pinker has a growing audience among secular, scientifically-minded people who are skeptical about all forms of the supernatural, whether a belief in God, ...

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 ...

Reason To Believe - by Steven Pinker - Persuasion

In today's long read, cognitive scientist and Persuasion advisor Steven Pinker explores the nature of rationality, why people hold outlandish ...

If You Read Only One Serious Book This Year... - Samuel Cohn

Steven Pinker is overwhelmingly convincing in arguing that reason, science and humanism are bedrock values on which everything good in modern society depends.

My new favorite book of all time | Bill Gates

I agree with Pinker on most areas, but I think he's a bit too optimistic about artificial intelligence. He's quick to dismiss the idea of robots overthrowing ...

Steven Pinker: Rationality - Philosophy Now Forum

If Pinker claimed scientific knowledge is more rational than theology, quackery, pseudo-sciences, surely rational people will agree with that.

Steven Pinker Interview: “Life Has Become Better, and No One ...

"People seem to think that life is getting worse because anytime something bad happens, it's guaranteed to make the papers or the internet news ...

Steven Pinker thinks your sense of imminent doom is wrong

> Pinker: I think that's a fallacy. It can be true both that there are fewer poor people, fewer oppressed people, fewer victims of violence and ...

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?