Steven Pinker

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Historie Jazyk Psychologie

Steven Arthur Pinker is a renowned Canadian-American psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author.
He has written numerous popular science books exploring human nature, language, and cognition.
Pinker has held positions at MIT and Harvard, and is known for his wide-ranging work on topics including psychology, linguistics, and evolutionary theory.
He has received multiple awards and honors for his contributions to public understanding of science.
Pinker has been married three times and is currently married to philosopher Rebecca Goldstein.
His upcoming book will focus on common knowledge and its relationship to civility, hypocrisy, outrage, and taboos.

Knihy autora Steven Pinker

Enlightenment Now

od Steven Pinker • 2018

The world is getting better, by the numbers. The credit belongs to ideals we are abandoning.

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📊 Data-Driven Optimism 🌍 Global Development 🕊️ Decline Of Violence 🌱 Environmental Optimism ⚠️ Existential Risk

Enlightenment Now

The world is getting better, by the numbers. The credit belongs to ideals we are abandoning.

od Steven Pinker 2018 576 stran

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32 000+ hodnocení

📊 Data-Driven Optimism 🌍 Global Development 🕊️ Decline Of Violence 🌱 Environmental Optimism ⚠️ Existential Risk

The Better Angels of Our Nature

od Steven Pinker • 2010

Violence has plummeted for centuries. The numbers prove it. So does the danger it could reverse.

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🗡️ History Of Violence 📊 Quantitative History 🏛️ State And Violence 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Biases

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Violence has plummeted for centuries. The numbers prove it. So does the danger it could reverse.

od Steven Pinker 2010 806 stran

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29 000+ hodnocení

🗡️ History Of Violence 📊 Quantitative History 🏛️ State And Violence 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Biases

The Blank Slate

od Steven Pinker • 2002

Science has overturned the blank slate. Human nature is real, and building a just world requires it.

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🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧪 Behavioral Genetics 👶 Innate Cognition 🧩 Cognitive Biases

The Blank Slate

Science has overturned the blank slate. Human nature is real, and building a just world requires it.

od Steven Pinker 2002 560 stran

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25 000+ hodnocení

🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧪 Behavioral Genetics 👶 Innate Cognition 🧩 Cognitive Biases

The Language Instinct

od Steven Pinker • 1994

Children don't learn language; they reinvent it, driven by grammar etched into the brain.

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📝 Generative Linguistics 👶 Language Acquisition 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Psycholinguistics

The Language Instinct

Children don't learn language; they reinvent it, driven by grammar etched into the brain.

od Steven Pinker 1994 448 stran

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22 000+ hodnocení

📝 Generative Linguistics 👶 Language Acquisition 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Psycholinguistics

How the Mind Works

od Steven Pinker • 1997

Your mind is a system of evolved modules. Consciousness is the one puzzle evolution left unsolved.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Cognitive Science 🧩 Modular Mind 💻 Computational Mind 🏗️ Cognitive Architecture

How the Mind Works

Your mind is a system of evolved modules. Consciousness is the one puzzle evolution left unsolved.

od Steven Pinker 1997 660 stran

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21 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Cognitive Science 🧩 Modular Mind 💻 Computational Mind 🏗️ Cognitive Architecture

The Stuff of Thought

od Steven Pinker • 2007

Every sentence you speak betrays the mind's hidden assumptions about space, time, and cause.

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🗣️ Cognitive Linguistics 🧠 Language And Mind 🔄 Conceptual Metaphor 🌍 Linguistic Relativity ⛓️ Causal Reasoning

The Stuff of Thought

Every sentence you speak betrays the mind's hidden assumptions about space, time, and cause.

od Steven Pinker 2007 499 stran

3.91

11 000+ hodnocení

🗣️ Cognitive Linguistics 🧠 Language And Mind 🔄 Conceptual Metaphor 🌍 Linguistic Relativity ⛓️ Causal Reasoning

The Sense of Style

od Steven Pinker • 2014

Why can't smart people write clearly? A cognitive scientist blames one mental blind spot.

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✍️ Prose Style 📖 Language Usage 🏛️ Classic Prose 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🌳 Syntax

The Sense of Style

Why can't smart people write clearly? A cognitive scientist blames one mental blind spot.

od Steven Pinker 2014 368 stran

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9 000+ hodnocení

✍️ Prose Style 📖 Language Usage 🏛️ Classic Prose 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🌳 Syntax

Rationality

od Steven Pinker • 2021

How a single mental toolkit built science, law, and democracy, and why it keeps short-circuiting.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 📊 Bayesian Reasoning 🎯 Game Theory 📈 Statistical Thinking 🛡️ Motivated Reasoning

Rationality

How a single mental toolkit built science, law, and democracy, and why it keeps short-circuiting.

od Steven Pinker 2021 412 stran

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6 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Cognitive Biases 📊 Bayesian Reasoning 🎯 Game Theory 📈 Statistical Thinking 🛡️ Motivated Reasoning

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...

od Steven Pinker • 2025

How an infinite mental loop explains why we blush, lie, laugh, and cancel.

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🧠 Cognitive Psychology ♟️ Game Theory 🧩 Social Coordination 🤝 Social Norms 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...

How an infinite mental loop explains why we blush, lie, laugh, and cancel.

od Steven Pinker 2025 384 stran

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2 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Cognitive Psychology ♟️ Game Theory 🧩 Social Coordination 🤝 Social Norms 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Words and Rules

od Steven Pinker • 1999

Jogged is rule, bought is memory. Two systems, one verb, and their collisions explain language.

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🧠 Psycholinguistics 📚 Language Acquisition 💭 Connectionism Debate 🧩 Mental Grammar 🔤 Language Universals

Words and Rules

Jogged is rule, bought is memory. Two systems, one verb, and their collisions explain language.

od Steven Pinker 1999 397 stran

3.91

1 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Psycholinguistics 📚 Language Acquisition 💭 Connectionism Debate 🧩 Mental Grammar 🔤 Language Universals

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