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Steven Pinker | Seeing Reason in the Climate Debate
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5:56Now PlayingIn this clip, John and Steven discuss climate change policy and what a rational response ought to look like.
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Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. He earned his BA from McGill and his PhD from Harvard. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT.
He has won numerous prizes for his research, his teaching, and his books. The latest published in 2021, is called 'Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters'.
He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary doctorates, and one of Foreign Policy’s “World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals” and Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.” He was Chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and writes frequently for the New York Times, the Guardian, and other publications.
#reason #rational #climatechange #donaldtrump
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