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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soloists, comedy, cabaret and DJs. Speakers have included Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Liz Truss, Roger Penrose, A.S. Byatt, Paul Krugman, Jess Phillips,...
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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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own views". Shortly thereafter, Pinker followed suit. UATX apologized for creating "unnecessary complications" for Pinker and Zimmer by not clarifying [sooner]...
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ISBNÂ 0-87722-841-8. As quoted by Pinker https://literary-universals.uconn.edu/2017/06/25/human-universals/ Pinker, Steven 2002. The Blank Slate: the modern...
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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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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 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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social practices with the argument of denying that they are natural. Steven Pinker writes that "[t]he naturalistic fallacy is the idea that what is found...
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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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United States as well. This trend was dubbed a "euphemism treadmill" by Steven Pinker. The word retard dates as far back as 1426. It stems from the Latin...
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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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advanced technologies, he has received numerous accolades, including the Steven Pinker Professorship in Cognitive Psychology and the Classavo Chair Professorship...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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comparison to Oprah. The Associated Press noted that the second selection by Steven Pinker did not result in any increase in sales according to Nielsen BookScan...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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