Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist who is interested in all aspects of language, the mind and human nature. As a professor of psychology at Harvard (previously Stanford and MIT), he conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics and social relations. His prize-winning work includes ...
Steven Pinker,于1954年出生于Montreal, Quebec, Canada。曾就读于 McGill University (BA),Harvard University (PhD)。代表作:《The Blank Slate》、《The Better Angels of Our Nature》、《Enlightenment Now》等。他是进化心理学和心理计算理论的倡导者。2004 年,Pinker入选《时代》杂志“当今世界最具影响力的 1...
作者: 最近读Steven pinker的enlightenment now,让我稍微乐观振作一点。我对人类的活动持负面看法,觉得人类的存在只是破坏这个世界。所以认为人生应该就是躺着,别努力。越努力对世界也没有帮助。但是这本书可能会改变我的想法。这本书用数据描述了人类社会的进步,我们现在生活的时代是过去以来最好的时代了,不管从休闲时...
Steven Pinker's "Enlightenment NOW" is in many ways a terrific book, from which I have learnt much. But it is also deeply flawed. Science and reason are at the heart of the book, but the conceptions that Steven Pinker defends are damagingly irrational. And these defective conceptions of ...
作者: 《当下的启蒙》(英文:《Enlightenment Now》)by Steven Pinker -2021年5月
Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. He grew up in Montreal and earned his BA from McGill and his PhD from Harvard. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and...
“Pro Enlightenment” data and authors who on the contrary are collecting gloom-laden data to show that the civilisation of the Enlightenment is doomed to failure. There is certainly the potential for a thesis on this topic. But back to our reading of Pinker. In the chapter ...
Enlightenment Now (The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress) by Steven Pinker (Society & Technology) (297) BriefAudioBook - 17 January 2021 Podcast Episode 2021 YOUR RATING RateAdd a plot 在IMDbPro 上查看制作信息 Add to WatchlistMark as watched ...
The MIT Press Reader:Your latest book, “Enlightenment Now,” has sparked strong reactions from readers. What would you say is the reaction that has — pleasantly or unpleasantly — surprised you the most? Steven Pinker:One unpleasant surprise was to read reviews which bizarrely blamed the Enli...
When I want to ask such questions, I pose them to Steven Pinker. This present conversation (transcribed by Phoebe Kaufman) focuses on Pinker’sEnlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Pinker, an experimental psychologist, conducts research in visual cognition, psych...