Science and Literature

Steven Pinker, a distinguished Canadian-American scientist specializing in experimental psychology and the cognitive sciences, examines human thinking from the perspective of evolutionary psychology and computational theory of consciousness. What makes us rational? What makes us irrational? What makes us angry, happy, disgusted, attracted, inspired? Brain as computer or computer as brain? Morality, religion, reason-how does…

The main factor of evolution Darwin called natural selection, and he drew his conclusions from observing, among other things, the process of domestication of wild animals. Darwin also proved that the evolutionary principle applies not only to the biophysical but also to the psychological-behavioral development of living things and that there is no great gap…

The most famous and significant of Galileo’s astronomical works, published in August 1632 in Florence, and the result of more than thirty years of work and reflection by the great scholar. It was this book that served as the formal occasion for the persecution of the author by the Inquisition. The content of the work…