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Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18 1954) is a prominent Canadian-American experimental psychology, cognitive science, and popular science writer known for his spirited and wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.

Pinker’s academic specializations are perception and language development, and he is most famous for popularizing the idea that language is an "instinct" or adaptation shaped by natural selection rather than a by-product of general intelligence. He is the author of five books for a general audience, which include The Language Instinct (1994), How the Mind Works (1999), Words and Rules (2000), The Blank Slate (2002), and The Stuff of Thought (2007). Pinker's books have won numerous awards and been New York Times best-sellers.

Biography Career Pinker was born in Canada and graduated from Montreal's Dawson College in 1973, received a first class bachelor's degree in experimental psychology from McGill University in 1976, then went on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy in the same discipline at Harvard university in 1979. Pinker is currently the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, having previously been director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Pinker was named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and one of Prospect (magazine) and Foreign Policy (magazine)'s 100 top public intellectuals in 2005. He has also received honorary doctorates from the universities of University of Newcastle, University of Surrey, Tel Aviv University and McGill University.

In January 2005, Pinker defended Lawrence Summers, President of Harvard University, whose comments about the gender gap in mathematics and science angered much of the faculty.

Pinker addresses the criticisms of scholars like Geoffrey Sampson (as outlined in his "Educating Eve", a biting criticism of the alleged language 'instinct' Pinker advocates) and Suren Naicker (as outlined in his "Rationalism vs. Empiricism: a critique of the Chomskyan paradigm").

There has been talk that he left MIT due to pressure regarding the nature of his general work, but Pinker himself refuses to comment, or verify this claim.

In 2007 he was invited on The Colbert Report and asked under pressure to sum up how the brain works in five words – Pinker answered "Brain cells fire in patterns."

Personal Pinker was born into the English-speaking Jewish community of Montreal. He has said, "I was never religious in the theological sense... I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious Secular Jewish culture.". His father, a trained lawyer, first worked as a traveling salesman, while his mother was first a home-maker then a guidance counselor and high-school vice-principal. He has two younger siblings; his brother is a policy analyst for the Government of Canada, his sister is a writer and school psychologist.{{Citation ''|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3926387,00.html|accessdate=25 November|accessyear=2006--> Pinker married Nancy Etcoff in 1980 and they divorced 1992; he married Ilavenil Subbiah in 1995 and they, too, divorced.{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0684348/bio |title=Biography for Steven Pinker |accessdate=2007-09-12--> His current girlfriend, [Rebecca Goldstein, is a professor of philosophy at [Trinity College (Connecticut) in [Hartford, Connecticut.{{cite web''|url= http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/about/media/2005_11_04_harvardcrimson.html| accessdate=3 February| accessyear= 2006--> He has no children.

Theories of language and mind Pinker is most famous for his work — popularized in The Language Instinct (1994) — on how children language acquisition, and for his popularization of Noam Chomsky's work on language as an innate faculty of mind. Pinker has suggested an evolution mental module for language, although this idea remains controversial. Additionally Pinker argues that many other human mental faculties are evolved (and is an ally of Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins in many evolutionary disputes).

Written work Pinker's books, How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate, are from the evolutionary psychology tradition, which views the mind as a kind of Swiss-army knife equipped with a set of specialized tools (or modules) to deal with problems faced by our Pleistocene ancestors. Pinker and other List of evolutionary psychologists believe that these tools evolved by natural selection, just like other body parts. The field of evolutionary psychology was pioneered by E. O. Wilson, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby. The Language Instinct has been criticized by Geoffrey Sampson in his book, The 'Language Instinct' Debate . The assumptions underlying the Psychological_nativism view have also been subject to sustained criticism in Jeffrey Elman's Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development (Neural Networks and Connectionist Modeling).

Pinker has also studied swear words (epithets) and how they represent what he calls "a window into emotion." He has written on the taboo of certain words; various types of swear words that exist in various languages, the grammar of swearing, and the circumstances that lead to swearing.

Selected publications Books

Articles and essays

References

External links

Debates

Vitae

Reviews

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image:StevePinker.jpg

Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18 1954) is a prominent Canadian-American experimental psychology, cognitive science, and popular science writer known for his spirited and wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.

Pinker’s academic specializations are perception and language development, and he is most famous for popularizing the idea that language is an "instinct" or adaptation shaped by natural selection rather than a by-product of general intelligence. He is the author of five books for a general audience, which include The Language Instinct (1994), How the Mind Works (1999), Words and Rules (2000), The Blank Slate (2002), and The Stuff of Thought (2007). Pinker's books have won numerous awards and been New York Times best-sellers.

Biography Career Pinker was born in Canada and graduated from Montreal's Dawson College in 1973, received a first class bachelor's degree in experimental psychology from McGill University in 1976, then went on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy in the same discipline at Harvard university in 1979. Pinker is currently the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, having previously been director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Pinker was named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and one of Prospect (magazine) and Foreign Policy (magazine)'s 100 top public intellectuals in 2005. He has also received honorary doctorates from the universities of University of Newcastle, University of Surrey, Tel Aviv University and McGill University.

In January 2005, Pinker defended Lawrence Summers, President of Harvard University, whose comments about the gender gap in mathematics and science angered much of the faculty.

Pinker addresses the criticisms of scholars like Geoffrey Sampson (as outlined in his "Educating Eve", a biting criticism of the alleged language 'instinct' Pinker advocates) and Suren Naicker (as outlined in his "Rationalism vs. Empiricism: a critique of the Chomskyan paradigm").

There has been talk that he left MIT due to pressure regarding the nature of his general work, but Pinker himself refuses to comment, or verify this claim.

In 2007 he was invited on The Colbert Report and asked under pressure to sum up how the brain works in five words – Pinker answered "Brain cells fire in patterns."

Personal Pinker was born into the English-speaking Jewish community of Montreal. He has said, "I was never religious in the theological sense... I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious Secular Jewish culture.". His father, a trained lawyer, first worked as a traveling salesman, while his mother was first a home-maker then a guidance counselor and high-school vice-principal. He has two younger siblings; his brother is a policy analyst for the Government of Canada, his sister is a writer and school psychologist.{{Citation ''|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3926387,00.html|accessdate=25 November|accessyear=2006--> Pinker married Nancy Etcoff in 1980 and they divorced 1992; he married Ilavenil Subbiah in 1995 and they, too, divorced.{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0684348/bio |title=Biography for Steven Pinker |accessdate=2007-09-12--> His current girlfriend, [Rebecca Goldstein, is a professor of philosophy at [Trinity College (Connecticut) in [Hartford, Connecticut.{{cite web''|url= http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/about/media/2005_11_04_harvardcrimson.html| accessdate=3 February| accessyear= 2006--> He has no children.

Theories of language and mind Pinker is most famous for his work — popularized in The Language Instinct (1994) — on how children language acquisition, and for his popularization of Noam Chomsky's work on language as an innate faculty of mind. Pinker has suggested an evolution mental module for language, although this idea remains controversial. Additionally Pinker argues that many other human mental faculties are evolved (and is an ally of Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins in many evolutionary disputes).

Written work Pinker's books, How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate, are from the evolutionary psychology tradition, which views the mind as a kind of Swiss-army knife equipped with a set of specialized tools (or modules) to deal with problems faced by our Pleistocene ancestors. Pinker and other List of evolutionary psychologists believe that these tools evolved by natural selection, just like other body parts. The field of evolutionary psychology was pioneered by E. O. Wilson, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby. The Language Instinct has been criticized by Geoffrey Sampson in his book, The 'Language Instinct' Debate . The assumptions underlying the Psychological_nativism view have also been subject to sustained criticism in Jeffrey Elman's Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development (Neural Networks and Connectionist Modeling).

Pinker has also studied swear words (epithets) and how they represent what he calls "a window into emotion." He has written on the taboo of certain words; various types of swear words that exist in various languages, the grammar of swearing, and the circumstances that lead to swearing.

Selected publications Books

Articles and essays

References

External links

Debates

Vitae

Reviews

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