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Steven Pinker

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Steven Pinker

Steven Arthur "Steve" Pinker is a Canadian-born American cognitive scientist, psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.

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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .

2025
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

2021
En defensa de la Ilustracion: Por la razon, la ciencia, el humanismo y el progreso

En defensa de la Ilustracion: Por la razon, la ciencia, el humanismo y el progreso

2018
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

2018
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

2017

with Yuval Noah Harari, Eric Ripert, Neil Strauss, Neil Gaiman, Sharon Salzberg, Soman Chainani and Caroline Paul

Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?

Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?

2016

with Matt Ridley, Alain de Botton and Malcolm Gladwell

The Sense of Style

The Sense of Style

2014
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity

The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity

2010
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

2010
The Seven Words You Can't Say On Television

The Seven Words You Can't Say On Television

2008
What Are You Optimistic About?

What Are You Optimistic About?

2007

with John Brockman, Richard Dawkins, Martin Rees, Marcelo Gleiser, Michael Shermer and Daniel C. Dennett

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004

2004
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

2002
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

1999
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

1998
How the Mind Works

How the Mind Works

1997
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind

The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind

1994