![]() ![]() Instead, we think in ways that are sensible in the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning our best thinkers have discovered over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, and optimal ways to update beliefs and commit to choices individually and with others. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives, and discovered the benchmarks for rationality itself. ![]() Why do we find ourselves flooded with fake news, medical quackery, conspiracy theorizing, and “post-truth” rhetoric? It can’t be that humans are just an irrational species - cavemen out of time saddled with biases, fallacies, and illusions. Today, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding-and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. Location: Science Commons building, Atriumįree. A native of Montreal, he earned his bachelor’s degree at McGill University, his PhD from Harvard in 1979, and currently teaches at Harvard University, where he is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology. Pinker is an experimental cognitive psychologist and a widely-read writer on language, mind, and human nature. Steven Pinker to our campus on September 22, 2022, when he will deliver the Priestley Lecture on Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. ![]() The University of Lethbridge is pleased to welcome Dr. ![]()
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