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Steven Pinker: When everyone knows that everyone knows

Steven Pinker: When everyone knows that everyone knows

Update: 2025-10-16
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The Harvard professor Steven Pinker is the author of "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows," a new book on common knowledge. He believes that awareness of what others know, or lack of it, is key to figuring out how humans coordinate to form everything from personal relationships to our shared belief in money or power or national borders.


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Steven Pinker: When everyone knows that everyone knows

Steven Pinker: When everyone knows that everyone knows