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- My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
- Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.
- I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.
- The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.
- We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.
- Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?
- You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.
- People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but…
- An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar…
- Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare…
- By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful…
- For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented…
- I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism…
- One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against…
- One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most…
- Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the…
- There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.
- The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.
- We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in…
- The way to understand how different species evolved is to think about the niches that they fill in an ecosystem - basically, how they make…
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