{"product_id":"9781637700464","title":"Steven Pinker: Critical Responses","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Pinker is a controversial scholar in many fields and a popular voice on social media.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e His books and talks are followed by millions of thoughtful readers, not confined to academics.  He has written and spoken about violence, rationality, sex differences, human nature, language as a biological instinct, and other topics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePinker’s many best-selling books include Rationality (2021), Enlightenment Now (2018), The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011), The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002), and How the Mind Works (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn Steven Pinker: Critical Responses, a number of distinguished writers from various backgrounds give us searching criticisms of Pinker’s theory and world-view, reflecting a diversity of political and scientific perspectives. In different ways they call into question many of Pinker’s methods, assumptions, and conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSteven Pinker: Critical Responses is the fourth volume in the Critical Responses series, which brings together criticisms of famous public intellectuals with a major following on social media, treated seriously but without academic pretensions or trappings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRay Scott Percival\u003c\/b\u003e is a philosopher who has taught at Lancaster University and the United Arab Emirates University.  He founded the Karl Popper Web and the Enlightenment Defended page on Facebook. He is the author of The Myth of the Closed Mind: Understanding Why and How People Are Rational (2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"River Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Carus Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2026-04-03","offer_id":47353608700159,"sku":"9781637700464","price":38.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_39f7c59e-0d68-462a-8c08-81d0926983da.jpg?v=1760541696","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781637700464","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}