Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein August 14, 2013 Is the human conscience led by the head or the heart? Is the moral progress we have enjoyed — …
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I loved it. Thank you!
You’d think someone would have thought to bring a microphone for questions
from the floor… Otherwise very interesting.
If you had to make a list of ideal dinner guests, you’d just have to
include this endlessly fascinating couple. Marvellous talk, thank you for
uploading.
When Goldstein met Pinker she told him that he had changed the entire way
that she thought, I feel the same way.
I wonder what he would have said about abortion, in the context of
“settled” moral issues. It is obviously not settled in the U.S.; does he
think it might ever be?