Steven Pinker
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September 18, 1954
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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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Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, ...more
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"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
— Steven Pinker
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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)
— Steven Pinker (The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature)
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