Steven Pinker



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

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