Steven Pinker: The stuff of thought
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http://www.ted.com In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading ... Read more
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- -: Steven Pinker: The stuff of thought
September 11, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances f...
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- -: Steven Pinker: Chalking it up to the blank slate
October 7, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some people found it incredibly upsetting.
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- -: Steven Pinker on Free Will
June 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)There's no such thing as free will in the sense of a ghost in the machine; our behavior is the product of physical processes in the brain rather than some mysterious soul, says Pinker. Check out the rest of Steven Pinker's interview at http://bigthink.com/stevenpinker
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- -: Plato vs the Arts: Does Fiction Have a Practical Purpose? - Rebecca Goldstein
March 16, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/05/Pinker_and_Goldstein_Reason_Fiction__Faith Rebecca Goldstein, philosopher and author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, discusses her love of Plato and laments his distaste for the narrative arts. She defends fiction as power...
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- -: Evolution of the Shrug: Darwin's Principle of Antithesis
July 13, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/20/Adam_Gopnik_and_Steven_Pinker_Debate_Darwin Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker relays his favorite bit of "Darwiniana": Darwin's principle of antithesis. Darwin proposed that both animals and humans alike employ a certain set of biological sig...
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