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Steven Pinker (born September 18 1954, in Montreal, Canada) is a psychologist at Harvard University and a writer of popular science books. He was a professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 21 years before returning to Harvard in 2003. He received a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) from McGill University in 1976, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Experimental Psychology) from Harvard University in 1979.

Pinker has written about language and cognitive science at every level, from technical papers to approachable popular science. He is most noted for his work on how children acquire language and for his furthering of Noam Chomsky's work on language as an innately-wired development of the evolutionary process.

His most recent book The Blank Slate was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and The Aventis Prizes for Science Books. In 2004, he was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People.

1 Books by Steven Pinker

Language Learnability and Language Development (1984)
Visual Cognition (1985)
Connections and Symbols (1988)
Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (1989)
Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (1992)
The Language InstinctThe Language Instinct is a book by Steven Pinker, published in 1995, in which he argues the case for the belief that humans are born with an innate capacity for language. In addition, he deals sympathetically with the still stronger claim of Noam Chomsky (1994)
How the Mind Works (1996)
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (1999)
The Blank Slate: The Denial of Human Nature in Modern Intellectual Life (2002)

2 External links

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Steven Pinker's Home Page
Gen Kuroki's Unofficial Web Page about Steven Pinker
Criticisms of Evolutionary Psychology
The Seven Sins of Evolutionary Psychology (paper by Panksepp & Panksepp (2000))
The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism by Jerry FodorJerry Allan Fodor is a philosopher at Rutgers University, New Jersey. He is the author of many groundbreaking books in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science, where he laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and the language of thou (critical review of Pinker's How the Mind Works)
Meet the Flintstones by Simon BlackburnSimon Blackburn (born 1944) is a British academic philosopher also known for his efforts to popularise philosophy. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University and a fellow of Trinity College, and has previously held teaching posts at P (critical review of The Blank Slate)

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