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    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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    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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  • "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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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. 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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  • 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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  • 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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