Steven Pinker
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Cognitive scientist and author at Harvard; writes on rationality, language and human progress.
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36 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Disagreement is necessary when mortals deliberate (opens korrents.com)
“Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals.”
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The press is an availability machine whose anecdotes mislead us about what is common (opens korrents.com)
“The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead.”
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People certain they are right can impose their beliefs by force instead of persuading (opens korrents.com)
“Instead of feeling any need to persuade, people who are certain they are correct can impose their beliefs by force.”
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Disagreement is necessary when mortals deliberate (opens korrents.com)
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8 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (opens rcmnd.app)
“To my list I would add The Internationalists, in which Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro argue that the oft-ridiculed 1928 Kellogg-Briand pact outlawing war deserves much of the credit for the decline of war after 1945,…”
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Homicide (opens rcmnd.app)
“It is one of two books that first excited me about evolutionary psychology. The other was Donald Symons's The Evolution of Human Sexuality. Homicide is a cornucopia of insights into human nature.”
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The Evolution of Human Sexuality (opens rcmnd.app)
“It is one of two books that first excited me about evolutionary psychology. The other was Donald Symons's The Evolution of Human Sexuality.”
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The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (opens rcmnd.app)