Is cancel culture real? | Steven Pinker | Big Questions

Steven Pinker joins us at Penguin to answer some big questions on cancel culture, free will and God. His new book, Rationality, is out now: https://amzn.to/3DWE3sG

In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply an irrational species - cavemen out of time fatally cursed with biases, fallacies and illusions. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives and set the benchmarks for rationality itself. Instead, he explains, we think in ways that suit the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning we have built up over millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, causal inference, and decision-making under uncertainty. These tools are not a standard part of our educational curricula and have never been presented clearly and entertainingly in a single book - until now.

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