Steven Pinker
Author
Series
Cognitive science volume 7
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well. Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the 21st century, Pinker doesn't...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it explain why there seems to be so much irrationality in the world, including, let's be honest, in each of us? These are the goals of Steven Pinker's follow-up to Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates's "new favorite book of all time"). Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, fallacies, and illusions. But this, Pinker...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A former Google data scientist presents an insider's look at what the vast, instantly available amounts of information from the Internet can reveal about human civilization and society.
"How much sex are people really having? How many Americans are actually racist? Is America experiencing a hidden back-alley abortion crisis? Can you game the stock market? Does violent entertainment increase the rate of violent crime? Do parents treat sons differently...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Philosopher Andy Norman dives into the world of mind-parasites, ideas that cause destructive thinking and extremism, and describes how to inoculate your mind to keep it safe from bad ideas"--
COVID denial persists in the face of overwhelming evidence. Anti-vaxxers compromise public health. American Nazis march openly in the streets. Flat Earth theory is back. Norman shows that these phenomena share a root cause: We live in a time when the so-called...
14) What to think about machines that think: today's leading thinkers on the age of machine intelligence
Series
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Collects the thoughts of almost two hundred of today's leading thinkers on the issue of artifical intelligence.