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

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Brockman
SeriesEdge Question Series
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:416
Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 135
Category/GenreGeneral
ISBN/Barcode 9780061686542
ClassificationsDewey:001.2
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint HarperPerennial
Publication Date 2 June 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

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 . . . and many others.

Author Biography

The publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of the national bestsellers This Idea Must Die, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes.