What Have You Changed Your Mind About? - Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything

Publié par HarperCollins e-books, le 06 octobre 2009

416 pages

Résumé

Even geniuses change their minds sometimes. Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about? The answers are brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, sometimes shocking, and certain to kick-start countless passionate debates. Steven Pinker on the future of human evolution . Richard Dawkins on the mysteries of courtship . SAM HARRIS on the indifference of Mother Nature . Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the irrelevance of probability . Chris Anderson on the reality of global warming . Alan Alda on the existence of God . Ray Kurzweil on the possibility of extraterrestrial life . Brian Eno on what it means to be a "revolutionary" . Helen Fisher on love, fidelity, and the viability of marriage . Irene Pepperberg on learning from parrots .

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