Steven Pinker 45158

Ons betere ik. Waarom de mens steeds minder geweld gebruikt

Atlas Contact. Hardback. Pp: 1056. De gruwelijke beelden van oorlogen en genocide die we op het nieuws zien geven ons de indruk dat onze tijd de gewelddadigste aller tijden is. Het omgekeerde is waar, laat Steven Pinker zien in Ons beter ik. Hoe komt het dat we ons zoveel menselijker gedragen? Ons leven is verbeterd - en zo gaan we indirect andermans leven meer waarderen. En hoe meer we met anderen te maken krijgen, des te meer groeit onderling begrip, zelfs al is dat soms uit egoïsme. Pinker laat zien dat empathie en zelfbeheersing op den duur sterkere eigenschappen zijn dan sadisme en wraak. Ons beter ik is een indrukwekkende, onmisbare geschiedenis van de menselijke omgang en een boek voor de eeuwigheid. STEVEN PINKER (Montréal, 1954) is een experimenteel psycholoog, en professor in Psychologie aan Harvard University. Hij schreef over taal en intelligentie in onder andere Het taalinstinct (1994), Hoe de menselijke geest werkt (1997), Het onbeschreven blad (2002) en De stof van het denken (2007). Het unieke van Steven Pinker is dat hij zijn antwoorden op zoveel terreinen zoekt: psychologie, taalkunde, evolutiebiologie - en dat maakt hem ook meteen iemand die vanuit veel hoeken op debat en controverse kan rekenen. 'De stof van het denken is een rijk boek waarin Pinker laat zien hoe de werkelijkheid de taal bepaalt en de manier waarop we daarmee als biologische en sociale dieren hebben leren omgaan.' - DE STANDAARD 'Wie op de hoogte wil raken van een fascinerende nieuwe wetenschap, en bovendien graag spannende populair-wetenschappelijke boeken leest, moet zich Het taalinstinct niet laten ontgaan.' - TROUW. ISBN: 9789025427160. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Alain De Botton and Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Pinker and Matt Ridley

Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead

Oneworld Publications 2016 Paperback, 128pp. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals and societies around the world. But is progress inevitable? Its critics argue that human civilization has become different, not better, over the last two and a half centuries. What is seen as a breakthrough or innovation in one period becomes a setback or limitation in another. In short, progress is an ideology not a fact; a way of thinking about the world as opposed to a description of reality. So is the cup half full or half empty?. (ISBN: 9781786070760). Good.

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MARCUS, GARY F., STEVEN PINKER, MICHAEL ULLMAN, MICHELLE HOLLANDER, T. JOHN ROSEN, FEI XU.

Overregularization in language acquisition. With commentary by Harald Clahsen.

Child Development Publications, the University of Chicago Press, Child Development Publications, the University of Chicago Press, 1992. Wrappers (paperback) vi,182 pp.; 23 cm. - "Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Serial No. 228. Vol. 57, No. 4, 1992" Text in English. (spine faded, previous woner's name) Although very good. Gewicht/Weight: 370 grs.

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PINKER, STEVEN

The Better Angels of Our Nature; Why Violence Has Declined

NY, Penguin Books. 2011. (ISBN: 9780143122012). Paperback. 18th printing. Tanning; minor flaws. Very Good+ to Near Fine.

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Steven Pinker

The Better Angels Of Our Nature: The Decline Of Violence In History And Its Causes

Allen Lane 2011 Paperback, 802pp. The Better Angels of Our Nature : The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes. Some tanning. (ISBN: 9781846140945). Good.

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Pinker, Steven

The Better Angels of Our Nature; Why Violence Has Declined

New York, Viking Adult, 2011. Hardcover. pp. 802. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; near fine in slightly rubbed dustjacket. .

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Pinker, Steven

THE BLANK SLATE - The Modern Denial of Human Nature.

Penguin, 2003 ; Conditie: In zeer goede staat. Paperback. Geen leesvouwen rug.

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Steven Pinker

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial Of Human Nature

Viking 2002 Hardback, 509pp. In a provocative study of the nature versus nurture debate, one of the world's foremost experts on language and the mind brilliantly explores the modern self-denial of our basic human natures. Heavy; DJ. (ISBN: 9780670031511). Very Good.

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Steven Pinker

The Blank Slate

Allen Lane 2002 Paperback, 528pp. This title makes explicit the argument that has been the backdrop to the author's previous books. It claims that the ideas of the 'noble savage' and the 'blank slate' which underpin modern attitudes to human nature are untruthful in deflecting responsibility from the individual onto society. (ISBN: 9780713996722). Good.

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Pinker, Steven & Jacques Mehler (eds.)

Connections and symbols.

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 1988. Paperback. 255 pp.Reprinted from Cognition ... volume 28 (1988)--Verso t.p.English text. Condition : very good, clean & unrea. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Connections and Symbols provides the first systematic analysis of the explosive new field of Connectionism that is challenging the basic tenets of cognitive science. Does intelligence result from the manipulation of structured symbolic expressions? Or is it the result of the activation of large networks of densely interconnected simple units? Connections and Symbols provides the first systematic analysis of the explosive new field of Connectionism that is challenging the basic tenets of cognitive science. These lively discussions by Jerry A. Fodor, Zenon W. Pylyshyn, Steven Pinker, Alan Prince, Joel Lechter, and Thomas G. Bever raise issues that lie at the core of our understanding of how the mind works: Does connectionism offer it truly new scientific model or does it merely cloak the old notion of associationism as a central doctrine of learning and mental functioning? Which of the new empirical generalizations are sound and which are false? And which of the many ideas such as massively parallel processing, distributed representation, constraint satisfaction, and subsymbolic or microfeatural analyses belong together, and which are logically independent? Now that connectionism has arrived with full-blown models of psychological processes as diverse as Pavlovian conditioning, visual recognition, and language acquisition, the debate is on. Common themes emerge from all the contributors to Connections and Symbols: criticism of connectionist models applied to language or the parts of cognition employing language like operations; and a focus on what it is about human cognition that supports the traditional physical symbol system hypothesis. While criticizing many aspects of connectionist models, the authors also identify aspects of cognition that could he explained by the connectionist models. ISBN 9780262660648.

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Pinker, Steven,

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress.

New York, Viking Penguin, 2018. 3rd Printing. Hardcover., Vg- (See Description), Vg/Vg- Dj Lightly Edgeworn. Pages: 556.

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PINKER, STEVEN

Enlightenment Now - The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Penguin Books UK, 1972.. First Penguin edition XVII + 556 p. .,notes, bibliogr, index SOFTCOVER: Orig. paperback .Some pages ink underlined. Name on title page. GOOD)
¶ One of the world's greatest contemporary thinkers and author of The Better Angels of Our Nature shows how to think afresh about the human condition and to meet the challenges that confront usIs modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking intochaos, hatred, and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is an illusion - a symptom of historical amnesia and statistical fallacies. If you follow the trendlines rather than the headlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer, happier, morepeaceful, more stimulating and more prosperous - not just in the West, but worldwide. Such progress is no accident: it's the gift of a coherent and inspiring value system that many of us embrace without even realizing it. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress.The challenges we face today are formidable, including inequality, climate change, Artificial Intelligence and nuclear weapons. Butthe way to deal with them is not to sink into despair or try to lurch back to a mythical idyllic past; it's to treat them as problems we can solve, as we have solved otherproblems in the past. In making the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st century, Pinker shows how we can use our faculties of reason and sympathy to solve the problems that inevitablycome with being products of evolution in an indifferent universe. We will never have a perfect world, but - defying the chorus of fatalism and reaction - we can continue to make it a better one.

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"Enlightenment Now / The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress"

Viking, "2018, 528pp, paperback, goed exemplaar / good copy". ISBN: 9780525559023.

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Pinker, Steven:

Gewalt. Eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit

S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, 2011. 1211 Seiten Hardcover, kartoniert, mit Schutzumschlag und Lesebändchen Gewicht/weight ca. 1320 gr. Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen, keine Eintragungen. Rücken, Ecken, Kanten sehr gut.

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Pinker, Steven,

HOTHEADS.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 2005, 1st in imprint, paperback, [iv], 58pp, [ii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, No. 37 in the Pocket Penguin 70 series, an extract from 'How the Mind Works', fine,

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