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@sapinker

Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

Boston, MA
Дата регистрации: январь 2010 г.

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  1. 6 минут назад

    In his new, evidence-filled book on urban crime, Thomas Abt inverts some conventional wisdom: Focus on crime itself, not (your theory of) “root causes”; crime causes poverty, not just vice-versa; don’t equate gun control with crime control.

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  2. 4 часа назад

    Cognitive scientist Barbara Tversky, author of the new book Mind in Motion, explains why spatial cognition is the foundation of thought, the brain is not a prediction machine, we edit our memories after the fact, & other insights.

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  3. 5 часов назад
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  4. 6 часов назад

    Long-form interview with me in the Polish magazine Pkrzekroj (including instructions on how to pronounce it), now available in English.

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  5. 6 часов назад

    Four Flavors of Doom: A Taxonomy of Contemporary Pessimism - By the rising star philosopher Maarten Boudry.

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  6. 6 часов назад

    Fascinating background to one of my favorite stories, Borges’s “Funes the Memorious" (and Other Cases of Extraordinary Memory) # via

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  7. 25 июн.

    Bleeding Out: New book out today on evidence-based analyses of urban violence and how to reduce it, by my colleague Thomas Abt.

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  8. 25 июн.

    Another day, another op-ed by a Harvard prof criticizing the university’s infantilizing its students, in this case by indulging their unanalyzed feelings. Ron Sullivan: Why Harvard Was Wrong to Make Me Step Down

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  9. 24 июн.

    Opinion | Harvard’s infantilizing private club policy is part of a bigger agenda: By my colleague, the computer scientist and former Harvard College Dean Harry Lewis.

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  11. 23 июн.

    Harvard Gazette is asking faculty "What is one thing wrong with the world that you would change?" Here's my answer. Harvard Professor Steven Pinker says the truth lies in the data via

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  12. 23 июн.

    Did Trump rediscover Just War Theory? However disingenuous or mercurial, his claim that 150 collateral deaths would've been disproportionate in response to a downed drone is a sign of changing sensibilities toward war. Also Obama in 13, Clinton in 98

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  13. 23 июн.

    Critics of modernity extol traditional societies knit by kinship, but their members are less honest and generous with strangers: Morality = loyalty to blood, not abstract principles.

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  14. 22 июн.

    Nietzsche isn't pietzsche: Philosopher Kelley Ross shows how he endorsed slavery & analogous subjugation of women as a "necessary condition for any superior culture" I'm always amazed that this flaming antihumanist is so venerated.

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  15. 22 июн.

    Episode 27 of Jacob Mchangama's podcast series on the history of free speech: How Enlightening (return to Ground Zero of the Enlightenment in 18th century Europe).

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  16. 22 июн.

    My colleague Cass Sunstein interviewed by 80000 hours (itself worth a look) on how social change happens.

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  17. 22 июн.
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  18. 21 июн.

    About to give the keynote address “An (Unnecessary) Defense of Reason and a (Necessary) Defense of Universities’ Role in Advancing It" at the meeting of the Heterodox Academy .

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  19. 21 июн.

    Why sexist & racist philosophers might still be admirable. Condemning them as individuals (rather than the ideas of their era) inflates our own rectitude, obscures moral preogress, and blinds us to our own shortcomings.

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  20. 20 июн.

    Related: Why are some women “news avoiders”? One reason: emotional labor. I suspect journalism's obsession with spasms of violence & other societal pathologies, contributes, News is often like a guy movie.

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