Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, and popular science author known for his work on language, mind, and human nature, advocating evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.[3][2] Born in Montreal to a secular Jewish family, he earned a BA from McGill University in 1976 and a PhD from Harvard in 1979, later teaching at Harvard, Stanford, and MIT before becoming the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard.[2][6] He gained prominence with books like The Language Instinct (1994) and How the Mind Works (1997), exploring innate language abilities and evolutionary bases of behavior.[1][3]
popular science
psychology
evolutionary psychology
linguistics
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
How the Mind Works (Playaway Adult Nonfiction)
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
How the Mind Works
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Seven Words You Can't Say On Television
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Words and Rules: The Ingredients Of Language (Science Masters Series)
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates the Gift of Language
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
How the Mind Works
Words and Rules: The Ingredients Of Language
Learnability and Cognition, new edition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)
Language, Cognition, and Human Nature: Selected Articles