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Steven Pinker is a prominent Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular science.
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- Full Name: Steven Arthur Pinker
- Born: September 18, 1954
- Raised in Montreal, Canada
- Nationality: Canadian-American
- Occupation: Scientist and Author
- Professor at Harvard University
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Background
Pinker specialized in visual cognition and language development in children, and he is most famous for the idea that language is an "instinct" or biological adaptation shaped by natural selection. He opposes Noam Chomsky and others who regard the human capacity for language to be the by-product of other adaptations.
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Steven Pinker on Amazon
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature - $16.00
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argu...
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature - $16.00
This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to ...
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.) - $15.99
In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use...
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How the Mind Works - $18.95
“A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear.” —New York Review of Books The Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller How the Mind Works is a fascinating, provocative work explorin...
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature - $16.00
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pink...
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