Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2023-01-07
Books mentioned on How Did Human Morality Evolve? - Dr Victor Kumar - #573
Dr Victor Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, part of the Mind & Morality Lab's Moral Psychology Research Group and an author. Morality might seem like something that exists independently of humans.
Mentioned: Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost In the Machine by Stephen Pinker.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost In the Machine
Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost In the Machine is an influential work of popular science and philosophy by Stephen Pinker that explores human nature and the historical trajectory of violence.
Discussed“and of course Stephen pinker's been another person who's written a lot about this and about the ways in which violence was much more a regular part of our Lives until the last few centuries”
Where to get it
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