Steven Pinker

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September 18, 1954

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Montreal, Canada

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http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/

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Science, Nonfiction, Philosophy

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Steven Arthur Pinker is a prominent Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular science. Pinker is known for his wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.

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	The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker avg rating 4.09 — 1,266 ratings — published 1994 14 editions	my rating:
	The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker avg rating 4.04 — 795 ratings — published 2002 13 editions	my rating:
	How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker avg rating 4.00 — 675 ratings — published 1997 13 editions	my rating:
	The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker avg rating 3.76 — 663 ratings — published 2007 8 editions	my rating:
	Words and Rules by Steven Pinker avg rating 3.77 — 164 ratings — published 1999 8 editions	my rating:
	The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 by Steven Pinker (Editor), Tim Folger (Series Editor) avg rating 3.98 — 40 ratings — published 2004 3 editions	my rating:
	Hotheads (Pocket Penguins 70's #37) by Steven Pinker avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings	my rating:
	Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure by Steven Pinker avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 1989 2 editions	my rating:
	The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television by Steven Pinker avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	Human Language by Steven Pinker avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 0	my rating:

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quotes by Steven Pinker

"Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe."
— Steven Pinker

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"the mind is a neural computer"
— Steven Pinker (How the Mind Works)

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"If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks."
— Steven Pinker (The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature)

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