In Enlightenment Now, the Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker defends those ideals, ... There are threats to progress, reason, science, and humanism. Progress is an uneven process, ...

If we have learned anything in the last several hundred years, it is that the Enlightenment vision of humanism is limited by conflict-ridden borders of class, culture, comprehensibility, and even ...

On this week’s episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke to Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard and author of the new book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science ...

The case for scientific humanism. Skip to main content. Scientific American. January 1, 2019. ... This blending of scientific naturalism and Enlightenment humanism should have a name.

In recent years “the Enlightenment project” has fallen on hard times, sometimes for good reason, sometimes not. To pick up the college reunion story, Enlightenment humanism failed to recognize ...

It’s interesting to see clergy constantly referring to secular humanism as the new evil threat to our country and society. Actually, following the Enlightenment, humanism was responsible for the ...