Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker | |
|---|---|
 Steven Pinker 2005 | |
| Born | 18 September 1954
(aged 71) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian-American |
| Spouse(s) | Rebecca Goldstein |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Canada |
| Website | stevenpinker |
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American experimental psychologist. He has written six popular psychology books. He is a Harvard College professor.
Early life and career
Pinker was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1954, to a middle-class English-speaking Jewish family.
Personal life
When he was 13 he became an atheist.[1] Pinker was given the American Humanist Association's Humanist of the Year award on May 13, 2006.
Steven Pinker Media
Steven Pinker
Pinker argues that the human faculty for language is as much an instinct as a beaver's ability to build dams.
Pinker at CSICon in 2018, hosted by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Pinker lecturing to humanists in the United Kingdom (2018)
Detail from "Mars" in Das Mittelalterliche Hausbuch, c. 1475 – 1480. Pinker used the image in The Better Angels of Our Nature to illustrate violence in the Middle Ages.
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Other websites
References
- ↑ Staff, Guardian. Steven Pinker: the mind reader (6 November 1999).