Steven Pinker
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.
Bøker av Steven Pinker
Enlightenment Now
The world is getting better, by the numbers. The credit belongs to ideals we are abandoning.
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Historie
Filosofi
Sosiologi
Politikk
Enlightenment Now
The world is getting better, by the numbers. The credit belongs to ideals we are abandoning.
Vitenskap
Historie
Filosofi
Sosiologi
Politikk
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Violence has plummeted for centuries. The numbers prove it. So does the danger it could reverse.
Historie
Psykologi
Vitenskap
Sosiologi
Politikk
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Violence has plummeted for centuries. The numbers prove it. So does the danger it could reverse.
Historie
Psykologi
Vitenskap
Sosiologi
Politikk
The Blank Slate
Science has overturned the blank slate. Human nature is real, and building a just world requires it.
Psykologi
Vitenskap
Filosofi
Biologi
Sosiologi
The Blank Slate
Science has overturned the blank slate. Human nature is real, and building a just world requires it.
Psykologi
Vitenskap
Filosofi
Biologi
Sosiologi
The Language Instinct
Children don't learn language; they reinvent it, driven by grammar etched into the brain.
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Psykologi
Biologi
Evolusjon
The Language Instinct
Children don't learn language; they reinvent it, driven by grammar etched into the brain.
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Språk
Psykologi
Biologi
Evolusjon
How the Mind Works
Your mind is a system of evolved modules. Consciousness is the one puzzle evolution left unsolved.
Psykologi
Vitenskap
Evolusjon
Biologi
Filosofi
How the Mind Works
Your mind is a system of evolved modules. Consciousness is the one puzzle evolution left unsolved.
Psykologi
Vitenskap
Evolusjon
Biologi
Filosofi
The Stuff of Thought
Every sentence you speak betrays the mind's hidden assumptions about space, time, and cause.
Psykologi
Språk
Vitenskap
Filosofi
Antropologi
The Stuff of Thought
Every sentence you speak betrays the mind's hidden assumptions about space, time, and cause.
Psykologi
Språk
Vitenskap
Filosofi
Antropologi
The Sense of Style
Why can't smart people write clearly? A cognitive scientist blames one mental blind spot.
Skriving
Språk
Psykologi
Oppslagsverk
Vitenskap
The Sense of Style
Why can't smart people write clearly? A cognitive scientist blames one mental blind spot.
Skriving
Språk
Psykologi
Oppslagsverk
Vitenskap
Rationality
How a single mental toolkit built science, law, and democracy, and why it keeps short-circuiting.
Psykologi
Vitenskap
Filosofi
Økonomi
Sosiologi
Rationality
How a single mental toolkit built science, law, and democracy, and why it keeps short-circuiting.
Psykologi
Vitenskap
Filosofi
Økonomi
Sosiologi
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...
How an infinite mental loop explains why we blush, lie, laugh, and cancel.
Psykologi
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Filosofi
Sosiologi
Økonomi
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...
How an infinite mental loop explains why we blush, lie, laugh, and cancel.
Psykologi
Vitenskap
Filosofi
Sosiologi
Økonomi
Words and Rules
Jogged is rule, bought is memory. Two systems, one verb, and their collisions explain language.
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Psykologi
Grammar
Skriving
Filosofi
Words and Rules
Jogged is rule, bought is memory. Two systems, one verb, and their collisions explain language.
Vitenskap
Psykologi
Grammar
Skriving
Filosofi
