What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything Paperback - 2009
by John Brockman
Edge, the influential online group, recently asked high-powered thinkers to discuss the question that gives this book its title. More than 100 contributors have responded with some of the most insightful, humbling, fascinating confessions and anecdotes ("San Francisco Chronicle").
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From the rear cover
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.
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- Title What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything
- Author John Brockman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2009-01-06
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780061686542 / 0061686549
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.4 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 3.56 cm)
- Category Science
- Library of Congress subjects Cosmology, Social prediction
- Dewey Decimal Code 001.2
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 11/01/2008, Page 1143
- Newsweek, 01/12/2009, Page 17
- Publishers Weekly, 11/03/2008, Page 53
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