Robert Wright (1) (1957–)
Autore di The Moral Animal : Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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Robert Wright is the bestselling author of The Evolution of God, The Moral Animal, and Nonzero. He has taught in the psychology department at the University of Pennsylvania and the religion department at Princeton University. He is currently Visiting Professor of Science and Religion at Union mostra altro Theological Seminary in New York. mostra meno
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- Data di nascita
- 1957-01-15
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Princeton, New Jersey, USA
San Francisco, California, USA - Istruzione
- Princeton University
Texas Christian University - Attività lavorative
- journalist
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- The Sciences
The New Republic
The Wilson Quarterly
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New America Foundation - Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism
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- Wright is a contributing editor at the New Republic, Time, and Slate. He has also written for the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker. and the New York Times Magazine. He previously worked at The Sciences magazine where his column "The Information Age" won the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism. [adapted from Primates and Philosophers (2006)]
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Seems worth noting that the appendix was actually one of my favorite parts!
An apology for the usefulness of western Buddhism in the modern world.
Not really anything new here for me, but an interesting read nonetheless.
Not really anything new here for me, but an interesting read nonetheless.
I’m really liking this book but there’s parts of it that almost feels like a punishment because it shows me all the petty things that I do and I really should stop doing and gives me all the great reasons for stopping, and yet I am still unable to stop this pettiness.
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The author even brings much caution himself to the field and to how many evolutionary interpretations are post hoc explanations. And yet thoroughout the text the author makes mistakes of ascribing what is “self evident” evolutionary mechanism without explaining what kind of knowledge this is, without noting how it is not falsifiable.
It is a huge challenge but any logical thinker should be prepared to explain how they relate.
For me the biggest issue is one of types of knowledge. The idea that a particular trait might play a key role in the evolutionary mechanics of a species is not the same kind of absolute knowledge that it is optimal, that it is well adapted, that it is a special adaptation even that it is a solution to something...
In the real evolutionary context you cannot run perfect simulations and so you cannot falsify a particular trait. When you use genetic algorithms in computing there is a huge difference which is that you know the fitting function. For anything real this is so complex that it is nearly meaningless.
Still this is a book one must read to articulate your thinking around the intrinsic limitations of this field.
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