Livros recomendados por Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker é psicólogo cognitivo e linguista canadense-americano, professor na Universidade Harvard. Ficou conhecido por obras que exploram a natureza da linguagem, da mente e do comportamento humano, como The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works e The Better Angels of Our Nature. É um dos divulgadores científicos mais influentes do mundo anglófono.
Suas recomendações de leitura refletem um perfil eclético e rigoroso: ciência cognitiva, filosofia analítica, história, psicologia evolucionista e racionalismo iluminista. Para quem quer entender como a mente humana funciona — e como o conhecimento pode melhorar o mundo —, a curadoria de Pinker é uma bússola confiável.
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O Início do Infinito
”This 21st-century statement of the ideals of the Enlightenment offers fresh insight on a vast number of topics, including the workings of human cognition, the ways of science, and the drivers of progress.”
Disciplina para o Planeta Inteiro
”Children of the 1970s will appreciate the title, an allusion to Brand’s groundbreaking “Whole Earth Catalog,” which merged technology with the counterculture and encouraged global consciousness with the breathtaking earthrise photograph on the cover.”
O Relojoeiro Cego
”Perhaps the best display of expository scientific prose of the twentieth century.”
Inimigos, Uma História de Amor
”It’s about a holocaust survivor who ends up with three wives. Every scene is a goldmine of insight about human nature.”
36 Argumentos para a Existência de Deus
”A moving, hilarious, and intellectually deep novel about religion and atheism. Disclosure: I like this author’s fiction so much that I married her.”
Clear and Simple as the Truth
”Perhaps the best analysis of writing style, and a major inspiration for my own “The Sense of Style.””
Atrocidades
”This chronicle of history’s hundred deadliest wars and massacres, including death tolls, is a good way to settle bets (who was worse, Genghis Khan or Hitler?), brush up your history, and marvel at the cruelty and stupidity of our species.”
A Vida Mental do Modernismo
”Fascinating, important new book by friend & former colleague”
Pressuposto da Educação
”A grandmother from New Jersey uses genetics, ethnography, and child psychology to refute the dogma that parents shape their children's intelligence and personality.”
The Bias That Divides Us: The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking
One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science
”A delightful introduction to number theory, Einstein’s theory of relativity, higher dimensions, and other mathematical and scientific topics.”
A Evolução da Sexualidade Humana
”The founding document of evolutionary psychology, filled with insights about sex and the sexes, and more relevant than ever with #metoo.”
