Author Talk: Steven Pinker — "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows" (A Talks for Better Living Event)
Boston Public Library Presents
About
Join us in partnership with the Citywide Friends of the Boston Public Library in person for this hour-long talk with noted psychologist and author Steven Pinker about his latest book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows.
Professor Pinker will discuss his work and take audience questions toward the end of the main program. For those attending in-person, the talk will be followed by a book signing with our local independent bookstore partners, Trident Booksellers & Café.
About the book:
From one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a “fascinating” (Financial Times), brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but “superlatively gifted science writer” (The Times) Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or “out there,” is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives.
Author bio:
Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won many prizes for his teaching, his research on language, cognition, and social relations, and his twelve books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Rationality. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.”
Talks for Better Living
The City-Wide Friends of the Boston Public Library and the Boston Public Library invite you to a series of talks featuring world class authors. Listen and learn from some of the leading experts in the fields of Meditation, Nutrition, Psychology, and more as they share their knowledge to improve the quality of our lives.
Accessibility Notice: We strive to make our events accessible. To request a disability accommodation and/or language services, contact [email protected]. Please allow at least two weeks to arrange accommodation.
Programming at the Boston Public Library is funded through private support. To learn more about supporting the Library, please visit the Boston Public Library Fund's website.
Professor Pinker will discuss his work and take audience questions toward the end of the main program. For those attending in-person, the talk will be followed by a book signing with our local independent bookstore partners, Trident Booksellers & Café.
About the book:
From one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a “fascinating” (Financial Times), brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but “superlatively gifted science writer” (The Times) Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or “out there,” is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives.
Author bio:
Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won many prizes for his teaching, his research on language, cognition, and social relations, and his twelve books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Rationality. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.”
Talks for Better Living
The City-Wide Friends of the Boston Public Library and the Boston Public Library invite you to a series of talks featuring world class authors. Listen and learn from some of the leading experts in the fields of Meditation, Nutrition, Psychology, and more as they share their knowledge to improve the quality of our lives.
Accessibility Notice: We strive to make our events accessible. To request a disability accommodation and/or language services, contact [email protected]. Please allow at least two weeks to arrange accommodation.
Programming at the Boston Public Library is funded through private support. To learn more about supporting the Library, please visit the Boston Public Library Fund's website.