Steven Pinker

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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.

Könyvei: Steven Pinker

Enlightenment Now

írta: Steven Pinker • 2018

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

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Enlightenment Now

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

írta: Steven Pinker 2018 576 oldal

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The Better Angels of Our Nature

írta: Steven Pinker • 2010

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

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The Better Angels of Our Nature

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

írta: Steven Pinker 2010 806 oldal

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The Blank Slate

írta: Steven Pinker • 2002

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

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The Blank Slate

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

írta: Steven Pinker 2002 560 oldal

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The Language Instinct

írta: Steven Pinker • 1994

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

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The Language Instinct

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

írta: Steven Pinker 1994 448 oldal

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How the Mind Works

írta: Steven Pinker • 1997

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

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How the Mind Works

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

írta: Steven Pinker 1997 660 oldal

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The Stuff of Thought

írta: Steven Pinker • 2007

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

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The Stuff of Thought

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

írta: Steven Pinker 2007 499 oldal

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The Sense of Style

írta: Steven Pinker • 2014

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

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The Sense of Style

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

írta: Steven Pinker 2014 368 oldal

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Rationality

írta: Steven Pinker • 2021

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

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Rationality

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

írta: Steven Pinker 2021 412 oldal

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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...

írta: Steven Pinker • 2025

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

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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...

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

írta: Steven Pinker 2025 384 oldal

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Words and Rules

írta: Steven Pinker • 1999

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

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Grammar

Words and Rules

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

írta: Steven Pinker 1999 397 oldal

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Grammar

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