{"product_id":"9781637700464","title":"Steven Pinker: Critical Responses - Ray Scott Percival","description":"\u003cp\u003eSteven Pinker is a controversial scholar in many fields and a popular voice on social media. His books and talks are followed by millions of thoughtful readers, not confined to academics.ï¿½ He has written and spoken about violence, rationality, sex differences, human nature, language as a biological instinct, and other topics. Pinker'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). In 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. Steven 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. Ray Scott Percival is a philosopher who has taught at Lancaster University and the United Arab Emirates University.ï¿½ 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","brand":"Ray Scott Percival","offers":[{"title":"365 pages, Illustrations \/ 07\/05\/2026 \/ Philosophy","offer_id":57110547366263,"sku":"9781637700464","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781637700464.jpg?v=1779379676","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781637700464","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}