Steven Pinker

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born

September 18, 1954

gender

male

place of birth

Canada

website

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

genre

Nonfiction, Science

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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.
-Wikipedia

books by Steven Pinker

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avg rating: 4.03 | 2009 ratings | 14 distinct works

	The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics) by Steven Pinker avg rating 4.12 — 641 ratings — published 2000 12 editions	my rating:
	The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback) by Steven Pinker avg rating 4.04 — 404 ratings — published 2003 11 editions	my rating:
	The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover) by Steven Pinker avg rating 3.74 — 235 ratings — published 2007 7 editions	my rating:
	Words and Rules (Science Masters) by Steven Pinker avg rating 3.83 — 78 ratings — published 2000 6 editions	my rating:
	How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker avg rating 3.83 — 46 ratings — published 1999 10 editions	my rating:
	Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change) by Steven Pinker avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 1991	my rating:
	Hotheads (Pocket Penguins S.) by Steven Pinker avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 0	my rating:
	Human Language (Science Masters) by Steven Pinker avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 0	my rating:
	A Reader's Guide to the Language Instinct (HarperCollins Reader's Guide) by Steven Pinker avg rating 5.00 — 1 ratings — published 1998	my rating:
	Visual Cognition (Bradford Books) by Steven Pinker avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 1986 2 editions	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

tags: sex

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

tags: science

3 people liked it