Steven Pinker
description: Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
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Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
by Steven Pinker · 14 Oct 2021 · 533pp · 125,495 words
The Stuff of Thought The Better Angels of Our Nature Language, Cognition, and Human Nature: Selected Articles The Sense of Style Enlightenment Now EDITED BY STEVEN PINKER Visual Cognition Connections and Symbols (with Jacques Mehler) Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (with Beth Levin) The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 VIKING An
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imprint of Penguin Random House LLC penguinrandomhouse.com Copyright © 2021 by Steven Pinker Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of
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Subbiah library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Names: Pinker, Steven, 1954– author. Title: Rationality : what it is, why it seems scarce, why it matters / Steven Pinker. Description: 1st Edition. | New York : Viking, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021003592 (print) | LCCN 2021003593 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525561996 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525562009 (ebook
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, Oct. 24. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/why-are-states-so-red-and-blue/?_r=0. Pinker, S. 2015. Rock star psychologist Steven Pinker explains why #thedress looked white, not blue. Forbes, Feb. 28. https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/02/28/psychologist-and-author-stephen-pinker-explains
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E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ABOUT THE AUTHOR Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
Blank Slate The Stuff of Thought The Better Angels of Our Nature Language, Cognition, and Human Nature: Selected Articles The Sense of Style EDITED BY STEVEN PINKER Visual Cognition Connections and Symbols (with Jacques Mehler) Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (with Beth Levin) The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 VIKING An
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imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014 penguin.com Copyright © 2018 by Steven Pinker Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of
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rest of humankind. —Baruch Spinoza Everything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge. —David Deutsch CONTENTS ALSO BY STEVEN PINKER TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT DEDICATION EPIGRAPH LIST OF FIGURES PREFACE PART I: ENLIGHTENMENT CHAPTER 1. DARE TO UNDERSTAND! CHAPTER 2. ENTRO, EVO, INFO CHAPTER 3. COUNTER
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. CHAPTER 13: TERRORISM 1. Fear of terrorism: Jones et al. 2016a; see also chapter 4, note 14. 2. Western Europe as war zone: J. Gray, “Steven Pinker Is Wrong About Violence and War,” The Guardian, March 13, 2015; see also S. Pinker, “Guess What? More People Are Living in Peace Now. Just
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/getting-acquainted/item/13184-the-evolutionary-psychology-of-religion. Pinker, S. 2006. Preface to “What is your dangerous idea?” Edge. https://www.edge.org/conversation/steven_pinker-preface-to-dangerous-ideas. Pinker, S. 2007a. The stuff of thought: Language as a window into human nature. New York: Penguin. Pinker, S. 2007b. Toward
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angels of our nature: Why violence has declined. New York: Penguin. Pinker, S. 2012. The false allure of group selection. Edge. http://edge.org/conversation/steven_pinker-the-false-allure-of-group-selection. Pinker, S. 2013a. George A. Miller (1920–2012). American Psychologist, 68, 467–68. Pinker, S. 2013b. Science is not
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker · 10 Sep 2007 · 698pp · 198,203 words
CAN’T SAY ON TELEVISION Chapter 8 - GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Chapter 9 - ESCAPING THE CAVE NOTES REFERENCES INDEX Praise for The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker “Pinker brings an engaging and witty style to the study of subject matter that—were it not as important to us as it is complex
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window into the deepest functioning of the human brain.” —Josie Glausiusz, Wired “A perceptive, amusing and intelligent book.” —Douglas Johnstone, The Times (London) “This is Steven Pinker at his best—theoretical insight combined with clear illustration and elegant research summary, presented throughout with an endearing wit and linguistic creativity which has become
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may not sound especially enticing, but with Pinker as your guide, pondering what the meaning of ‘is’ is can be mesmerizing.” —Details ABOUT THE AUTHOR Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. He is the author of seven books, including The Language Instinct
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First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2007 Published in Penguin Books 2008 Copyright © Steven Pinker, 2007 All rights reserved Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following copyrighted works: “This Be the Verse” from Collected Poems
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1994 · 661pp · 187,613 words
Steven Pinker The Language Instinct How the Mind Creates Language for Harry and Roslyn Pinker who gave me language Contents Preface 1. An Instinct to Acquire an
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Bang 12. The Language Mavens 13. Mind Design Notes References Glossary Searchable Terms P.S. Insights, Interviews & More… About the Author Praise Other Books by Steven Pinker Credits Copyright About the Publisher Preface I have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this book to try to
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American Association for the Advancement of Science. Are you ready? Genetic biologists have identified the grammar gene. Yes! It appears from a news account that Steven Pinker of MIT and Myrna Gopnik of McGill University have solved a puzzle that has baffled teachers of English for years. Some pupils master grammar with
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, PS14 Yiddish, 56, 170, 253, 263, 378 Yourcenar, M., 135 Yngve, V, 457 Zurif, E., 321 P.S. Insights, Interviews & More… About the author Meet Steven Pinker About the book On Writing The Language Instinct Frequently Asked Questions The Language Instinct Today Read on Author’s Picks: Suggested Reading Have You Read
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? More by Steven Pinker Notes to P.S. Material References to P.S. Material About the author Meet Steven Pinker © 2005 by Rebecca Goldstein THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT is dedicated to my parents, “who gave me language”; the ambiguity
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its political, moral, and emotional colorings. Read on Author’s Picks Suggested Reading If you liked The Language Instinct, I think you’ll like these… Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works (1997), Words and Rules (1999), The Blank Slate (2002), The Best American Science and Nature Writing (2004), and The Stuff of
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: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (2007). Last-minute addition: another excellent book on the science of reading. Have You Read? More by Steven Pinker WORDS AND RULES: THE INGREDIENTS OF LANGUAGE How does language work, and how do we learn to speak? Why do languages change over time, and
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this original and totally entertaining book, written in the same engaging style that illuminated his bestselling classics, The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker explores the profound mysteries of language. By picking a deceptively simple phenomenon—regular and irregular verbs—Pinker connects an astonishing array of topics in the
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(5469): 1156–59. Don’t miss the next book by your favorite author. About the Author The Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, STEVEN PINKER has been named one of Time magazine’s “Hundred Most Important People in the World Today,” and has been awarded numerous prizes for his research
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Republic, and the New York Times. Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins authors. MORE PRAISE FOR The Language Instinct “Reading Steven Pinker’s book is one of the biggest favors I’ve ever done my brain. It is the sort of writing that any genuine expert on
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Instinct vibrates with delicious asides and poignant discoveries…. Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker’s investigations.” —The Independent “Steven Pinker is, I think, engagingly wrong in some of his conclusions, but the operative word here is engagingly. He reminds us of the pleasures of reading
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, and clear. The book is to Chomsky as Shakespeare is to Spenser.” —The Economist “[A] marvelously readable book about language, written by a real expert. Steven Pinker tackles with wit and erudition the kinds of question everyone asks…. [He] brings not only an expertise in linguistics and psychology and a wide knowledge
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and language. Highly recommended.” —Booklist “Run, don’t walk, to your local bookstore and buy The Language Instinct. In a dazzling, informative, and funny book, Steven Pinker brings you into the wonderful world of language. He spares the reader the mumbo jumbo of linguistics and directs your attention to an unalterable truth
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popularization of Noam Chomsky’s linguistics ever written.” —Toronto Globe and Mail “Pinker writes clearly and engagingly about the most difficult matters.” —American Airlines Way “Steven Pinker has made several landmark contributions to cognitive science in the past, and his latest book The Language Instinct constitutes yet another one. [It is] written
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to transform technical stuff into a fun and informative read…. But don’t be fooled by the entertainment: Pinker is dead serious about language.” —Kinesis “Steven Pinker, one of the leading linguistic researchers in the world, skillfully defends a provocative thesis about the biological bases of language and in the process provides
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the modern science of language…. It is a joy to witness, at last, the prommise of linguistics fulfilled.” —London Review of Books OTHER BOOKS BY STEVEN PINKER The Stuff of Thought: Language and Human Nature The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language How
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book was originally published in 1994 by William Morrow and Company. P.S.™ is a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers. THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT. Copyright © 1994 by Steven Pinker. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 2002 · 901pp · 234,905 words
PENGUIN BOOKS THE BLANK SLATE Steven Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His research on visual cognition and the psychology of language has earned prizes from the National Academy
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nothing else like it, and it is going to have an impact that extends well beyond the scientific academy.” —Paul Bloom, Trends in Cognitive Sciences “Steven Pinker has written an extremely good book—clear, well argued, fair, learned, tough, witty, humane, stimulating. I only hope that people study it carefully before rising
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see that the idea of an innately flawed but wonderfully rich human nature is a force for good, not evil.” —Colin McGinn, The Washington Post “Steven Pinker is a man of encyclopedic knowledge and an incisive style of argument. His argument in The Blank Slate is that intellectual life in the West
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like being burgled. You’re shocked, your things are gone, but you can’t help thinking about how you’re going to replace them. What Steven Pinker has done is break into our common human home and steal our illusions.” —John Morrish, The Independent “As a brightly lighted path between what we
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. When Pinker starts describing it, the reader will surely recognize it.” —Bruce Ramsey, The Seattle Times THE BLANK SLATE The Modern Denial of Human Nature Steven Pinker PENGUIN BOOKS To Don, Judy, Leda, and John PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New
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, England First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. 2002 Published in Penguin Books 2003 Copyright © Steven Pinker, 2002 All rights reserved Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following copyrighted material. Page 22: Lyrics from “A Simple Desultory Philippic (or
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by permission. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGUED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS: Pinker, Steven, 1954– The blank slate: the modern denial of human nature / Steven Pinker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN: 978-1-1012-0032-2 1. Nature and nurture. I. Title. BF341.P47 2002 155.2
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, “The end of nature and the next man” (Review of F. Fukuyama’s The great disruption), Weekly Standard, June 28, 1999. 40.A. Ferguson, “How Steven Pinker’s mind works” (Review of S. Pinker’s How the mind works), Weekly Standard, January 12, 1998. 41.T. Wolfe, “Sorry, but your soul just
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker · 24 Sep 2012 · 1,351pp · 385,579 words
PEACE Chapter 7 - THE RIGHTS REVOLUTIONS Chapter 8 - INNER DEMONS Chapter 9 - BETTER ANGELS Chapter 10 - ON ANGELS’ WINGS NOTES REFERENCES INDEX ALSO BY STEVEN PINKER ALSO BY STEVEN PINKER Language Learnability and Language Development Learnability and Cognition The Language Instinct How the Mind Works Words and Rules The Blank Slate The Stuff of
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Thought EDITED BY STEVEN PINKER Visual Cognition Connections and Symbols (with Jacques Mehler) Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (with Beth Levin) The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 VIKING Published
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Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R oRL, England First published in 2011 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Copyright © Steven Pinker, 2011 All rights reserved Excerpts from “MLF Lullaby,” “Who’s Next?,” and “In Old Mexico” by Tom Lehrer. Excerpt from “It Depends on What You
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by Alkatraz Corner Music Co. LIBRARY OF CONGRES CATALOGING -IN-PUBLICATION DATA Pinker, Steven, 1954– The better angels of our nature: why violence has declined / Steven Pinker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN : 978-1-101-54464-8 1. Violence—Psychological aspects. 2. Violence—Social aspects. 3. Nonviolence—Psychological aspects
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by Yugoslavia Zacher, Mark Zambia Zebrowitz, Leslie Zelizer, Viviana zero-sum games Zimbardo, Philip Zimring, Franklin Zipf, G. K. Źiźek, Slavoj Zola, Émile ALSO BY STEVEN PINKER Language Learnability and Language Development Learnability and Cognition The Language Instinct How the Mind Works Words and Rules The Blank Slate The Stuff of Thought
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EDITED BY STEVEN PINKER Visual Cognition Connections and Symbols (with Jacques Mehler) Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (with Beth Levin) The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 Table of
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NEW PEACE Chapter 7 - THE RIGHTS REVOLUTIONS Chapter 8 - INNER DEMONS Chapter 9 - BETTER ANGELS Chapter 10 - ON ANGELS’ WINGS NOTES REFERENCES INDEX ALSO BY STEVEN PINKER Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Epigraph Preface Chapter 1 - A FOREIGN COUNTRY Chapter 2 - THE PACIFICATION PROCESS Chapter 3 - THE CIVILIZING PROCESS
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NEW PEACE Chapter 7 - THE RIGHTS REVOLUTIONS Chapter 8 - INNER DEMONS Chapter 9 - BETTER ANGELS Chapter 10 - ON ANGELS’ WINGS NOTES REFERENCES INDEX ALSO BY STEVEN PINKER
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 2014 · 477pp · 106,069 words
Words and Rules The Blank Slate The Stuff of Thought The Better Angels of Our Nature Language, Cognition, and Human Nature: Selected Articles EDITED BY STEVEN PINKER Visual Cognition Connections and Symbols (with Jacques Mehler) Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (with Beth Levin) The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 To Susan
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United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014 First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane 2014 Copyright © Steven Pinker, 2014 Illustration credits Page 52: MacNelly editorial, © Jeff MacNelly – distributed by King Features 57: CartoonStock 61: James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1997 · 913pp · 265,787 words
‘The humour, breadth and clarity of thought … make this work essential reading for anyone curious about the human mind’ Raymond Dolan, Observer ABOUT THE AUTHOR Steven Pinker, a native of Montreal, studied experimental psychology at McGill University and Harvard University. After serving on the faculties of Harvard and Stanford universities he moved
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Angeles Times. He is the author of The Language Instinct, available in Penguin, and Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language. HOW THE MIND WORKS Steven Pinker PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New
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biological kin can drive a lifelong quest. (Entrepreneurs hope to exploit this motive when they send out those computer-generated postcards that offer to trace Steven Pinker’s ancestors and find the Pinker family seal and coat of arms.) Of course, people ordinarily do not test each other’s DNA; they assess
The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century
by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words
Future Epilogue: Winds of Change A Note on Data Sources Notes Acknowledgements To my mother and aunt “We don’t throw virgins into volcanoes anymore.” — Steven Pinker INTRO: A NEW SECULAR RELIGION A Necessary Inquiry If one could think of the worst possible year to write a book that was critical of
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savannah — but now, in a media-saturated era, constantly mislead us.4 By far the most famous of this cohort is the Canadian cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, whose 2011 bestseller The Better Angels of Our Nature served as a catalyst for these ideas to reach a wider audience. In this eight-hundred
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to suggest that our dissatisfaction with progress is precisely because we’re too afraid to see the glass half empty. The perennially optimistic Canadian psychologist Steven Pinker writes that “as we care about more of humanity, we’re apt to mistake the harms around us for signs of how low the world
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Optimism under one roof: the aptly named humanprogress.org. Pieces from this website have been shared liberally on the Twitter accounts of New Optimists like Steven Pinker and his followers, notwithstanding the site’s rather simplistic and poorly-written style as well as its comical plea to subscribe and “get optimistic news
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Hitler and Stalin (Vintage Books, 2011), pg. 160 54 Pinker, S., Enlightenment Now, ch. 22. 55 Pinker, S., Enlightenment Now, pg. 408. 56 Gray J., “Steven Pinker is Wrong About Violence and War”, Guardian, 13 Mar. 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/13/john-gray
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-steven-pinker-wrong-violence-war-declining 57 Burke, M., Hsiang, S.M., and Miguel, E., “Global Non-linear Effect of Temperature on Economic Production”, Nature, 527, 12
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://www.edge.org/event/the-science-of-gender-and-science-pinker-vs-spelke-a-debate 18 “Steven Pinker at Davos: excessive political correctness feeds radical ideas”, Big Think, 31 Jan. 2018, https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/steven-pinker-excessive-political-correctness-feeds-dangerous-ideas 19 Pinker, S., “Featured Reader”, Arts and Letters Daily, 26
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Dec. 2014, https://www.aldaily.com/featured-reader/steven-pinker-2014-12-26/ 20 Szalai, J., “Steven Pinker Wants You to Know Humanity Is Doing Fine. Just Don’t Ask About Individual Humans”, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018, https
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://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/books/review-enlightenment-now-steven-pinker.html 21 Pinker, S. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature,(Penguin, 2002), pp. 121, 371 22 Pinker, S. The Blank Slate, pg
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, 25 May 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/technology/zuckerberg-harvard-commencement-road-trip.html 37 “Steven Pinker on Genetically Re-engineering Human Nature”, The Nexus Institute, 2016, http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/steven-pinker-genetically-reengineering-human-nature/ 38 Norberg, J., Progress, pg. 124 39 Ridley, M., The Rational Optimist, pg. 346
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
by Linsey McGoey · 14 Sep 2019
is neglected in mainstream economic theory today. Today is a good time to re-examine Smith’s attitude to profiteering among business merchants. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, in his recent bestseller Enlightenment Now, also turns to the late 18th century, but I argue that he gets Adam Smith wrong, and also that
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of any better framing I’ve seen, I label the Bannon–Pinker conundrum – after two figures who have amassed widespread public followings for different reasons: Steven Pinker and Breitbart mastermind Stephen Bannon. THE BANNON–PINKER CONUNDRUM Bannon is at the forefront of propagandist efforts to demonize what he calls a ‘globalist’ conspiracy
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nation states and what he sees as a superior Judeo-Christian world outlook. His anti-foreigner views are deservedly condemned by centrist political thinkers including Steven Pinker, who has criticized Bannon’s ideas. But the Pinker–Bannon conundrum is this: although Pinker disavows racism, he also tends to imply that any criticism
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seen as the patron saint of the belief that economic self-interest will lead naturally to positive economic growth for all members of a community. Steven Pinker and others call this the ‘positive-sum’ or ‘shared prosperity’ thesis and they attribute it to Smith. The reality is different. It is true that
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to swing back to a problem first raised by Smith: to the problem of rent-seeking and corporate impunity. SHARED PROSPERITY? Some intellectuals today, including Steven Pinker, continue to ignore this pendulum shift. Echoing Mankiw, Pinker insists in his recent bestseller, Enlightenment Now, that wealth inequality is irrelevant to both societal and
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interests fairly. A balanced, pragmatic approach to inevitable economic conflicts is very different from the attitude today, when people seem polarized by a Pollyannish attitude (Steven Pinker: globalization had made everything better) and a Hobbesian one (Stephen Bannon: globalization has made everything worse). These chapters explore a plausible ‘ignorance pathway’ for understanding
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oil’ (CNN, April 13); see also N. Ahmed, 2014. ‘Iraq invasion was about oil’ (The Guardian, March 20). 16 I. Goldin, 2018. ‘The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism’ (Nature, February 16). 17 L. Elliot, 2016. ‘The World Bank and the IMF won’t admit their policies are the problem’ (The Guardian
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Development Finance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). 19 Albert Hirschman, The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991). 20 See Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress (New York: Penguin, 2018), 63, for Pinker’s discussion of the ‘sin of ingratitude,’ and
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The Right Side of History
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