Steven Arthur Pinker is a prominent Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular science. Pinker is known for his wide-ranging explorations of human nature and its relevance to language, history, morality, politics, and everyday life. Steven Pinker 4.21 29,278 ratings3,276 reviews Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Nonfiction (2018) If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.
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Meet your next favorite book Join Goodreads Shelves > Steven Pinker > Steven Pinker Books Showing 1-26 of 26 The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback) by Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author) (shelved 16 times as steven-pinker) avg rating 4.16 — 28,170 ratings — published 2010 Want to Read Rate this book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker | Goodreads Browse News & Interviews Jump to ratings and reviews Language and Human Nature Tetralogy 24,299 the Ghost in the Machine to discover what your friends think of this book! Displaying 1 - 30 of 1,117 reviews science-and-brains 50 books9,773 followers Steven Arthur Pinker is a prominent Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular science. Pinker is known for his wide-ranging explorations of human nature and its relevance to language, history, morality, politics, and everyday life. How the Mind Works Steven Pinker 3.99 20,302 ratings668 reviews In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct.
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Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He specializes in visual cognition and developmental linguistics, and his experimental topics include mental imagery, shape recognition, visual attention, regularity and irregularity in language, the neural basis of words and grammar, and childhood language development. 4.04 8,500 ratings1,022 reviews A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress is a 2018 book written by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker.It argues that the Enlightenment values of reason, science, and humanism have brought progress, and that health, prosperity, safety, peace, and happiness have tended to rise worldwide. It is a follow-up to Pinker's 2011 book, The Better Angels of. Steven Pinker is a professor of psychology at Harvard, and one of the top public intellectuals in the world. In many ways, Enlightenment Now can be seen as a rebuttal of the arguments advanced by another famous psychologist, Jordan Peterson. In 12 Rules for Life, Peterson writes:
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By Peter Singer. Oct. 6, 2011. It is unusual for the subtitle of a book to undersell it, but Steven Pinker's "Better Angels of Our Nature" tells us much more than why violence has declined. This is the question that, in so many words, Steven Pinker seeks to answer in his new book. Pinker, the Harvard cognitive psychologist, is the author of a number of chunky works that have grown.
by Steven Pinker (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,755 ratings. Part of: Allen Lane History (52 books) See all formats and editions. Steven Pinker is a prominent member of a new cohort of science populizers with genuine scientific credentials (which includes, in the area of brain studies, such authors as Joseph LeDoux. In his gripping and controversial new work, New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows that despite the ceaseless news about war, crime, and terrorism, violence has actually been in decline over long stretches of history.
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Books | Steven Pinker Publications by Type: Book Home Publications 2021 Pinker, S. (2021). Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters (1-). Penguin. About 2018 Pinker, S. (2018). Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (1-). Viking. About 2016 Pinker, S. (2016). The Blank Slate (2002/2016) (1-). The outcry over free speech and race takes aim at Steven Pinker, the best-selling author and well-known scholar. 1874 Professor Steven Pinker, in his office in Cambridge, Mass., in 2018..
