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...Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family professor of psychology, counters in an op-ed published today in The Crimson (see p. A10), “Universities are about reason, pure and simple. Faith—believing something without good reasons to do so—has no place in anything but a religious institution, and our society has no shortage of these...
...holding up the whole book,’” Hackman wrote in an e-mail. He will then work on a new book on the designs and leadership of teams in the intelligence community and enroll in a workshop on the dynamics of dissent. Steven Pinker, Johnstone family professor of psychology, said that this, his fourth professional sabbatical, has had a familiar focus on authorship. His first two sabbaticals were devoted to the writing of books, but, he wrote, “With the last two I couldn’t get the timing to coincide with book...
...whipping boy, but not quite for the right reasons. Okay, Larry Summers’ BFF did once build an entire lecture around a hunk of plastic dog poo, and he gets the lines between current scientific theory, his opinion, and incontrovertible fact all mixed up, the poor dear. Pinker may flirt successfully with psychology, neurobiology, and evolutionary theory, but his class is jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Le sigh. But on the bright side: Pinker’s brain is as big as his mullet, if not as big as his ego, he’s a dynamic...
Summers enters the blogosphere along with his wife, English professor Elisa New, Friendly Professor of Law William J. Stuntz, and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, a close ally of Summers throughout his tumultuous stint as Harvard’s 27th president...
Summers enters the blogosphere along with his wife, English professor Elisa New, and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, a close ally of Summers throughout his tumultuous stint as Harvard’s 27th president...