Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual...
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British sociologist Steven Pinker (born 1954), Canadian-American psychologist, linguist and popular science author Susan Pinker (born 1957), Canadian...
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processes that don't work well than of complex ones that work flawlessly". Steven Pinker wrote in 1994 that "the main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research...
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Enlightenment Now (category Works by Steven Pinker)
Progress is a 2018 book written by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. It argues that the Enlightenment values of reason, science, and humanism...
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The Blank Slate (category Works by Steven Pinker)
Human Nature is a best-selling 2002 book by the cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, in which the author makes a case against tabula rasa models in the...
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The Better Angels of Our Nature (category Works by Steven Pinker)
Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined is a 2011 book by Steven Pinker, in which the author argues that violence in the world has declined...
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George Lakoff (section Disagreement with Steven Pinker)
candidate Howard Dean. In 2006 Steven Pinker wrote an unfavorable review of Lakoff's book Whose Freedom? in The New Republic. Pinker argued that Lakoff's propositions...
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neighbors, or the warm glow of ethnic chauvinism)." -Steven Pinker, from Nonzero, Slate.com. Pinker also challenges Wright's core thesis, echoing the case...
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The Language Instinct (category Works by Steven Pinker)
How the Mind Creates Language is a 1994 book by Steven Pinker, written for a general audience. Pinker argues that humans are born with an innate capacity...
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academics - including Paul Allen, Jeff Hawkins, John Holland, Jaron Lanier, Steven Pinker, Theodore Modis, and Gordon Moore - dispute the plausibility of a technological...
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grammatical morphology. During his PhD studies, he was mentored by Steven Pinker. In 2015 Marcus co-founded a machine-learning startup, Geometric Intelligence...
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Linguistic relativity (section Steven Pinker)
"mentalese". Pinker attacks what he terms "Whorf's radical position", declaring, "the more you examine Whorf's arguments, the less sense they make". Pinker and...
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Taylor (18 September 2002). "Why Does Bush Go "Nucular"?". Slate. Pinker, Steven. Pinker contra Nunberg re nuclear/nucular. LanguageLog. http://languagelog...
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science and hobbies with a variety of guests including Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker, Will MacAskill, Robin Dunbar, Michael Malice, Sam Harris, Eric Weinstein...
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The Stuff of Thought (category Works by Steven Pinker)
Window Into Human Nature is a 2007 book by experimental psychologist Steven Pinker. Pinker "analyzes how our words relate to thoughts and to the world around...
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Rationality (book) (category Works by Steven Pinker)
Matters is a 2021 book written by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. The book was published on September 28, 2021, by the Viking imprint...
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out a statement on Steven Pinker's resignation from the board, and apologized for creating "unnecessary complications" for Pinker and Zimmer due to UATX...
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Universals. New York City: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-87722-841-8. As quoted by Pinker Pinker, Steven 2002. The Blank Slate: the modern denial of human nature. New York:...
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altruism Richard Dawkins Steven Pinker The Naked Ape "Editors' Choice 1994," New York Times Book Review, December 4, 1994. Pinker, Steven. "Is There a Gene for...
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happy little atheist. In 2007, Goldstein married cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker. 2014 National Humanities Medal (presented September 10, 2015, at the...
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taboos themselves arise naturally as products of innate attitudes. Steven Pinker has written that Freud's conception of an urge to incest may have derived...
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his or her real thinking than something he or she says on purpose?" Steven Pinker has contended that politicians use vague and indirect language to avoid...
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early 21st centuries. Books featured on the podcast include Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, and The End...
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Gaiman, Erle Stanley Gardner, B. H. Liddell Hart, Elmore Leonard, Steven Levitt, Steven Pinker, Judith Rossner, and Neal Stephenson. Francis Thayer Hobson was...
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reduction in birthrates. In the book The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker considers that to be part of a trend that has continued since the beginning...
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"Notes on Pinker's 'The Blank Slate', Chapters 16–17". Archived from the original on 14 February 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014. Pinker, Steven (2018)...
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64561.63. S2CID 10126372. Q&A: Steven Pinker of 'Blank Slate', United Press International, 10/30/2002, http://pinker.wjh.harvard...
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Political Struggles". Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate calls Sowell's explanation the best theory given to date. In his book, Pinker refers to the "unconstrained...
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evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker. "About The Author". Susan Pinker. Retrieved 2019-12-03. Globe columnist wins award, SusanPinker.com, May 15, 2015 "The...
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How the Mind Works (category Works by Steven Pinker)
Works is a 1997 book by the Canadian-American cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, in which the author attempts to explain some of the human mind's poorly...
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