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Steven Pinker is one of the world's leading authorities on language and the mind. His popular and highly praised books include The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate, Words and Rules, How the Mind Works, and The Language Instinct. The recipient of several major awards for his teaching, books, and scientific research, Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He also writes frequently for The New York Times, Time, The New Republic, and other magazines.

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Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist and popular science author. He is a Harvard College Professor and the 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. Pinker's academic specializations are visual cognition and psycholinguistics. His experimental subjects include mental imagery, shape recognition, visual attention, children's language development, regular and irregular phenomena in language, the neural bases of words and grammar, and the psychology of innuendo and euphemism. He published two technical books which proposed a general theory of language acquisition and applied it to children's learning of verbs. In his popular books, he has argued that language is an…

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Hardcover: $24.09 Kindle Edition: $19.99
October 4, 2011
4.0 out of 5 stars   (87)
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Paperback: $12.24 Kindle Edition: $14.99
August 26, 2003
4.1 out of 5 stars   (241)
How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works
Paperback: $12.82 Kindle Edition: $9.99
June 22, 2009
3.7 out of 5 stars   (185)
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.)
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.)
Paperback: $10.34 Kindle Edition: $10.99
September 4, 2007
4.0 out of 5 stars   (124)
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Paperback: $11.56 Kindle Edition: $13.99
August 26, 2008
3.8 out of 5 stars   (68)
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (P.S.)
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (P.S.)
Paperback: $10.87
March 8, 2011
4.1 out of 5 stars   (33)
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 (The Best American Series (TM))
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 (The Best American Series (TM))
Paperback: $5.60
October 14, 2004
4.3 out of 5 stars   (10)
The Seven Words You Can't Say On Television
The Seven Words You Can't Say On Television
January 1, 2008
5.0 out of 5 stars   (1)
Visual Cognition (Computational Models of Cognition and Perception)
Visual Cognition (Computational Models of Cognition and Perception)
Paperback: $33.01
January 9, 1986
Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)
Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)
Paperback: $37.85
August 28, 1991
Language Learnability and Language Development, 2nd Edition
Language Learnability and Language Development, 2nd Edition
February 1, 1996
2.7 out of 5 stars   (3)
Connections and Symbols (Cognition Special Issue)
Connections and Symbols (Cognition Special Issue)
Paperback: $27.00
June 20, 1988

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