For all the tribulations in our lives…– Steven Pinker
For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we
For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident,
One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.
People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but
People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me
Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, ‘No,’ because it’s an oblate spheroid. They suffer from ‘the
I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I
Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather
As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers,
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