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Monday 7 March 2005
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Genes and Genesis

Steven Pinker, Jonathan Sacks
Chair: Valerie Monchi

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Genes and Genesis

Bibliography and Resources

Bibliographies

Steven Pinker

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Houghton Mifflin 2004)
  • The Blank Slate (Penguin 2002)
  • Words and Rules (Phoenix 1999)
  • How the Mind Works (Penguin 1997)
  • The Language Instinct (Penguin 1994)
  • Learnability and Cognition (MIT Press 1991)
  • Language Learnability and Language Development (Harvard University Press 1984)

For other edited academic volumes see Steven Pinker’s Harvard page

Jonathan Sacks

  • Traditional Alternatives: Orthodoxy and the Future of the Jewish People (Jews College Publications 1989) 
  • Tradition in an Untraditional Age (Vallentine Mitchell 1990)
  • Persistence of Faith (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1991)
  • Arguments for the Sake of Heaven: Emerging Trends in Traditional Judaism  (Kuperard 1991)
  • Crisis and Covenant:Jewish Thought After the Holocaust (Manchester University Press 1992)
  • One People? Tradition, Modernity and Jewish Unity (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization 1993)
  • Will We Have Jewish Grandchildren?: Jewish Continuity and How to Achieve It. (Vallentine Mitchell 1994)
  • Community of Faith (Peter Halban 1995)
  • Faith in the Future (Darton,Longman & Todd 1995)
  • Torah Studies: Discourses by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson (Kehot Publication Society 1996)
  • The Politics of Hope (Vintage 1997)
  • Morals and Markets (Institute of Economic Affairs 1998)
  • Celebrating Life (Fount 2000)
  • Radical Then, Radical Now (Continuum 2001)
  • Dignity of Difference (Continuum 2002)
  • The Chief Rabbi's Haggadah (Harper Collins 2003)
  • From Optimism to Hope: Thoughts for the Day (Continuum 2004)
  • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility (Continuum 2005)

As Editor

  • Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity (Ktav Publishing House 1991)
  • Tradition and Transition: Essays Presented to Chief Rabbi Sir Immanuel Jakobovits to Celebrate Twenty Years in Office (Jews College Publications 1986)

Resources

Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker’s website at Harvard
http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/about/index.html

Lecture on ‘The Evolutionary Psychology of Religion’
http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/2004_10_29_religion.htm

News and articles on Steven Pinker
http://news.surfwax.com/authors/files/Steven_Pinker_Book.html

Interviews with Steven Pinker
http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20031022-000008.html
http://reason.com/0210/fe.rb.biology.shtml

Profile of Steven Pinker from BBC4 documentary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/profile/steven-pinker.shtml

Jonathan Sacks

The Chief Rabbi’s website
http://www.chiefrabbi.org/

Interview in The Guardian by Jonathan Freedland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,781133,00.html

Review of The Dignity of Difference in ‘Interreligious Insight’
http://www.interreligiousinsight.org/April2003/Apr03Review.html

Wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon_Sacks

Jonathan Sacks as Guest Contributor in The Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-1421686,00.html

Transcript of a discussion held at St Edmunds College, Cambridge, following a lecture entitled `Power and Responsibility: Science, Humanity and Religion in the 21st Century’
http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/cis/sacks/discussion.html

Valerie Monchi

Article by Valerie Monchi in Prospect
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ (June 2002)

Article by Valerie Monchi in Prospect
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ (April 1998)

Website of Prospect magazine
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk



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