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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Science of Harmony, Hypocrisy and Outrage

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內容簡介 「我讀過最深刻探討人類本質與彼此理解的書籍之一。」——比爾．蓋茲史蒂文．平克（Steven Pinker），全球頂尖思想家、《啟蒙時代》、《人性的善良天使》及《語言本能》暢銷書作者，揭示了同理思維的力量與風險。作為認知科學家，平克最著迷的是我們如何無限地思考彼此的想法。這聽起來不可能，但平克展示了我們天天都在這麼做。這種意識，稱為「共同知識」（common knowledge），對我們的社會、政治與經濟生活有著深遠影響。平克指出，共同知識能解釋生活中的許多謎團：金融泡沫與崩盤、突如其來的革命、外交的姿態與虛偽、社群媒體的羞辱群眾與學術抵制文化，以及初次約會的尷尬。人們也極力避免共同知識——確保即使人人都知道某件事，卻無法確認其他人也知道他們知道。於是便出現了良性虛偽、暗中賄賂與威脅、性暗示，還有假裝看不見明顯的問題。 《當人人都知道，人人都知道……》透過探討人類行為的矛盾，邀請我們理解彼此如何試圖進入對方思維，及由此產生的和諧、虛偽與憤怒。'One of the most insightful books I’ve read about what makes us human and how we understand each other' Bill GatesSteven Pinker, one of the world's greatest thinkers and bestselling author of Enlightenment Now, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Language Instinct, reveals the power and perils of thinking alikeAs a cognitive scientist, the ultimate subject of Steven Pinker’s fascination is how we think about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but 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.Common knowledge, Pinker shows, can make sense of many of life’s enigmas: financial bubbles and crashes, revolutions that come out of nowhere, the posturing and pretence of diplomacy, the eruption of social media shaming mobs and academic cancel culture, the awkwardness of a first date. But people also go to great lengths to avoid common knowledge―to ensure that even if everyone knows something, they can’t know that everyone else knows they know it. And so we get rituals like benign hypocrisy, veiled bribes and threats, sexual innuendo, and pretending not to see the elephant in the room.In exploring the paradoxes of human behaviour, When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows… invites us to understand the ways we try to get into each other’s heads, and the harmonies, hypocrisies, and outrages that result.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Steven PinkerSteven Pinker is an experimental cognitive scientist. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. He has won many prizes for his research, teaching, and his eleven books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary doctorates, one of Foreign Policy's 'World's Top 100 Public Intellectuals' and Time's '100 Most Influential People in the World Today'. http: stevenpinker.com

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最佳賣點 : 「我讀過最深刻探討人類本質與彼此理解的書籍之一。」——比爾．蓋茲。
史蒂文．平克（Steven Pinker），全球頂尖思想家、《啟蒙時代》、《人性的善良天使》及《語言本能》暢銷書作者，揭示了同理思維的力量與風險。

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