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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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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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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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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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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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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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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