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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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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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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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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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 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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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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explosion, including Paul Allen, Jeff Hawkins, John Holland, Jaron Lanier, Steven Pinker, Theodore Modis, and Gordon Moore. One claim made was that the artificial...
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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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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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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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Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom is a 2015 book by Michael Shermer. Steven Pinker describes the book as a sequel to The Better Angels of Our Nature. In...
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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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with a variety of guests including Jordan Peterson, Jocko Willink, Steven Pinker, Louise Perry, Will MacAskill, Robin Dunbar, Andrew Huberman, Michael...
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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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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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Steve Sailer (redirect from Steven Ernest Sailer)
selected for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004, edited by Steven Pinker. In 2008, Sailer published his first book, America's Half-Blood Prince...
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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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website listed Robert Zimmer, Larry Summers, John Nunes, Gordon Gee, Steven Pinker, Deirdre McCloskey, Leon Kass, Jonathan Haidt, Glenn Loury, Joshua Katz...
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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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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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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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center are made up of Irven DeVore, Paul Ekman, Michael Gazzaniga, Steven Pinker and Roger Shepard. Leda Cosmides Evolutionary psychology John Tooby...
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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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Universals. New York City: McGraw-Hill. ISBNÂ 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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Words and Rules (category Works by Steven Pinker)
linguistics book by Steven Pinker about regular and irregular verbs. "Words and rules" is a theory that has been predominantly developed by Pinker. It has been...
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developmental disorder. He includes the research of Stephen Camarata and Steven Pinker, among others. Sowell says this trait affected many historical figures...
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Polish language, there exist different types of swearing (as coined by Steven Pinker); these include abusive, cathartic, dysphemistic, emphatic and idiomatic...
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