Bill Gates has described it as his new favourite book and in an interview discussion with Warren Buffett, they both nominated Enlightenment Now as a must-read book. It attributes these positive outcomes to Enlightenment values such as reason, science and humanism. He has frequently participated in public debates on science and society.Įnlightenment Now uses statistics to argue that health, prosperity, safety, peace and happiness are on the rise, both in the West and worldwide. Pinker has been named as one of the world’s most influential intellectuals, has won numerous awards and served on the editorial boards of a variety of journals and the advisory boards of several institutions. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist and popular science author.
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