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Mar 13, 2015 · A new orthodoxy, led by Pinker, holds that war and violence in the developed world are declining. The stats are misleading, argues Gray – and the idea of moral progress is wishful thinking and ...
Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.
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Oct 13, 2021 · At a time when belief in science appears to be waning, conspiracy theories seem to be on the rise, and many Americans cannot agree on basic facts, Steven Pinker argues for a return to rational thought and public discourse in his latest book, “Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters.”. Pinker, Harvard’s Johnstone ...
Sep 6, 2021 · “Many philosophers that I know,” says Pinker, “think that the world would be better if more people knew a bit of logic.” Your new book is driven by the idea that it would be good...
Jan 31, 2022 · Pinker’s move here is to distinguish between what he calls the reality mindset and the mythology mindset. The reality mindset is concerned with how things really are in our immediate surroundings, the people we deal with face to face, our factual memory of previous interactions, and the rules and norms that regulate our lives (p. 200).
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Oct 24, 2022 · Pinker argues that humans have a “mythology mindset” when it comes to things outside their personal experience: we are happy to believe things for which there is no evidence.
Nov 9, 2017 · “The claim that we are living in an unusually peaceful time may strike you as somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene,” Pinker wrote. “I know from conversations and survey data that most...
