The back cover of the print version included the following advance blurb from Harvard University psychology professor Steven Pinker: With a mixture of science, humanity, and fine writing, J. Michael Bailey illuminates the mysteries of sexual orientation and identity in the best book yet written ...
Is it because young brains have an extreme kind of plasticity? Or, as Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist,argues, an instinct for language-learning specifically, which fades as the brain ages and (in evolutionary terms) is no longer needed? Others think children have special environments and ...
as well as earning money. Steven Pinker of Harvard University calls human intelligence “a tailwind in life”, helping people adapt rationally to new challenges or a changing environment. For a modest price, the next generation can have a stronger tailwind. It would not only be wrong to refuse...
AlsoSteven Pinker Misunderstands the EnlightenmentandWoodrow Wilson’s Deceptive ’14 Points’. (Both previously available on theLong Revolutionwebsite.) May OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Didmy own t-shirt design, using a specialised shop to get it made. And someone just asked if they could get their ...
" "One of the most exciting developments from the world of ideas in decades, presented with panache by two frighteningly brilliant, endearingly unpretentious, and endlessly creative young scientists." - Steven Pinker, author of The Bett... E Aiden,JB Michel - 《Riverhead》 被引量: 7发表: 201...
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker. Viking, October, 2011. 771 pages, $40. ISBN 978-0-670-02295-3 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN JOHN FORD'S CLASSIC 1962 FILM, THE Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, two kin... M Shermer 被引量: 0发表: 2011年 Haunted...
The Moral Instinct By Steven Pinker Peter Singer, a prominent moral philosopher and public intellectual, has written at length about many ethical issues. He subscribes to utilitarianism, which is the position that the best moral action is that which maximizes the well-being of conscious entities;...
but it is worth noting that high rates of violence are not without precedent in human history. In his book The Better Angles of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker adeptly summarizes the available data on violence in human history, illustrates the precipitous decline over time,...
The Transient Suppression of the Worst Devils of our Nature—a review of Steven Pinker’s ‘The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Ha... This is not a perfect book, but it is unique, and if you skim the first 400 or so pages, the last 300 (of some 700) are a pretty good...