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Pinker and Goldstein: Science, Fiction, and God
February 17, 2010
Steven Pinker professor, psychology, Harvard [homepage]
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein philosopher, novelist

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, philosopher and author of the new novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, discusses mind-body problems with her husband, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker.

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Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi David Wolpe: The Great God Debate
Christopher Hitchens
01:31:00
The polemic "anti-theist" writer Christopher Hitchens engages in "The Great God Debate" with Conservative Jewish leader Rabbi David J. Wolpe. Does God exist? Is religion a force for good or evil in the world? Can ancient texts be squared with modern science? Can morality be divorced from religion?
I Shall Not Hate: Gaza Doctor's Journey to Peace and Human Dignity
Izzeldin Abuelaish
00:27:00
Born in a Palestinian refugee camp, Izzeldin Abuelaish has devoted his life to medicine and to reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians, even though his three daughters and a niece were killed by Israeli shelling. Here, he discusses what drives him.
Why Human Rights are Impossible Without Religion
John Warwick Montgomery
01:42:00
John Warwick Montgomery, lawyer and human rights theorist, examines the foundation for human rights. "Everyone presumably favors human rights," says Montgomery, but everyone favors them on their own terms.
Best American Essays 2010
Robert Atwan
01:04:00
Series editor Robert Atwan joins contributors John Summers and Jerald Walker to discuss The Best American Essays 2010, the 25th anniversary volume.
John Callahan and Adam Bradley on Ralph Ellison
John Callahan
00:49:33
Editors John Callahan and Adam Bradley discuss Ralph Ellison's posthumously-published second novel Three Days Before the Shooting.
Eat Your Words
Barbara Lynch
00:47:24
Three food writers discuss their craft. James Beard Award-winning superstar chef-owner Barbara Lynch runs seven Boston restaurants including No. 9 Park and B&G Oysters. She is the author of the new cookbook Stir: Mixing It Up in the Italian Tradition.
Image of The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 528 pages
Image of How the Mind Works
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 672 pages
Image of The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 512 pages
Image of The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.)
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 576 pages
Image of Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Harper Perennial (2000)
Binding: Paperback, 368 pages
Image of The Seven Words You Can't Say On Television
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Penguin (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 96 pages
Image of Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: The MIT Press (1991)
Binding: Paperback, 427 pages
Image of Connections and Symbols (Cognition Special Issue)
Author:
Publisher: The MIT Press (1988)
Binding: Paperback, 255 pages
Image of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher: Pantheon (2010)
Binding: Hardcover, 416 pages
Image of Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel (Great Discoveries)
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 224 pages
Image of The Mind-Body Problem (Contemporary American Fiction)
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher: (1993)
Binding: Paperback, 288 pages
Image of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (Jewish Encounters)
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher: Schocken (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 287 pages
Image of Properties of Light
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher: Mariner Books (2001)
Binding: Paperback, 256 pages
Image of Mazel (Library of American Fiction)
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press (2002)
Binding: Paperback, 374 pages
Image of Strange Attractors: Stories (Contemporary American Fiction)
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (1994)
Binding: Paperback, 288 pages
Image of The Dark Sister (Library of American Fiction)
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 304 pages
Image of Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes's "Meditations"
Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher: Princeton University Press (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 282 pages
Image of The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing (1991)
Binding: Hardcover, pages

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