Harvard University Psychology professor, Steven Pinker delivers a lecture on the modern denial of human nature with a specific focus on his 2003 book The Blank Slate.
Steven Pinker on his book The Blank Slate
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Steven Pinker on his book The Blank Slate
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Steven Pinker on his book The Blank Slate
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Steven Pinker on his book The Blank Slate
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Steven Pinker: Chalking it up to the blank slate
It’s another Ted talk from Steven Pinker, this time focusing on the subject matter of his book The Blank Slate.
"The creative human intelligence which personified a mouse and called him Mickey is the exact same creative intelligence which personified a universe and called him God"
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NYPL: Adam Gopnik with Steven Pinker - How Far Can Darwin Take Us?
Adam Gopnik, author of Angels & Ages, A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life and Steven Pinker, author of The Blank Slate and many other works, will discuss a fundamental question: How far can Darwin take us as a guide to why we are the way we are?
Both outspoken appreciators of Darwin, Adam Gopnik and Steven Pinker will compare their visions—perhaps complementary, perhaps contrasting—of what Darwin’s legacy is on the two hundredth anniversary of his birth.
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Science Friday Archives: Steven Johnson and ‘Where Good Ideas Come From”
How did Darwin develop some of his ideas? Why did YouTube burst onto the social media scene when it did? And how are those two developments connected?
In this segment, we’ll talk with Steven Johnson, author of the book "Where Good Ideas Come From." We’ll talk about how great ideas come to be, and what conditions help to foster creativity and spur advances in thought.