44 ordspråk av Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
 All of us have a theory about human nature. |
| Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. |
| As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. |
| But a conception of human nature, and its connections to other fields such as politics and the arts, have been there from time immemorial. |
| But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo. |
| But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses. |
| By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. |
| During the past century the doctrine of the blank slate has set the agenda for much of the social sciences and humanities, ... ... Psychology has sought to explain all thought, feeling, and behavior with a few simple mechanisms of learning. |
| Even if he does occasionally hurt people's feelings -- he occasionally hurts my feelings -- but I'm a big boy. I can get over it. I can argue back. We really need somebody to question the way a university is run. |
| Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. |
| Evolutionary psychology is taking that mindset and applying it to more emotionally charged aspects of behavior, such as sexuality, violence, beauty, and family feelings. |
| For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on. |
| I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker. |
| I think that there is a quasi-religious theory of human nature that is prevalent among pundits and intellectuals, which includes both empirical assumptions about how the mind works and a set of values that people hang on those assumptions. |
| I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. |
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