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Jul 15, 2020 · Professor Steven Pinker, in his office in Cambridge, Mass., in 2018. ... John McWhorter, a Columbia University professor of English and linguistics, cast the Pinker controversy within a moment ...
Sep 28, 2021 · How the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker became one of the world’s most contentious thinkers. ... I seem to have a taste for controversy,” he recently told Steven Levitt, the economist and ...
The author challenges Steven Pinker's book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, which claims that the human race has never had it so good. He argues that Pinker ignores the warnings of overshoot, biodiversity loss, and the dangers of neoliberalism. He proposes a more progressive vision of progress and human rights.
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Jul 20, 2020 · Steven Pinker will be fine, but a letter from his critics signals less powerful scholars that certain opinions, publicly stated, could result in professional sanction. Hundreds of academics in the ...
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Dec 25, 2023 · The meeting, first reported by the New York Times, included Jeff Flier, a former dean of Harvard Medical School, and Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, among two other ...
Oct 27, 2022 · Pinker is often willing to defend his colleagues — even when it attracts controversy. In 2012, the University of Miami philosopher Colin McGinn was accused of sexual harassment by a graduate ...
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