![]() ![]() He talked to Salon via Zoom about mansplaining, why rationality gets a bad rap and what he learned from getting called out on social media.Īs always, this conversation has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity. And so, while disagreeing at times, that's just Pinker and I recently did. "Rationality," the book, and rationality, the ideal, are about not about starting a fight but having a conversation. The Harvard psychologist seems aware that in advocating for critical thinking and free speech, he's emboldening his audience to question his ideas too. Changing the paradigm, then, means walking the walk. It's to remind us that we are the very creatures who can make riddles and quizzes in the first place.Īs a popular yet controversial public academic figure, Pinker knows that the real world often revolves more around winning arguments than solving problems. It's not even just to illuminate how easily any one of us can leap an erroneous conclusion that's a very human thing to do. The point, however, is not to make us all feel like dummies. ![]() Reading it, I bombed on every single one. ![]() Steven Pinker's new bestseller, "Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters," is filled with riddles and quizzes and problems to ponder. ![]()
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