When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .
Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
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384 pages · Released Sep 23, 2025 · Simon and Schuster
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . parent’s guide: what’s inside
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A note for parents
This is an adult academic work by Steven Pinker exploring game theory, social psychology, and epistemology through the lens of 'common knowledge'—a concept requiring sophisticated abstract reasoning. The book contains no content concerns but is intellectually demanding and pitched at college-educated readers, making it unsuitable for general youth audiences. Motivated high school students interested in philosophy, economics, or psychology might engage with portions, but it is not a children's or YA book.
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"From one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other's thoughts 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 publi... "From one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other's thoughts 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"--
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- Psychology
- Shelf: 01 Behavioral Reality & Human Nature
- Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Science
- Social psychology
- social science
- Social Theory
- Sociology
- common sense
- communication
- shared mental states
- social relations
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ISBN 9781668011577 · Simon and Schuster