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Steven Pinker has 66 books on Goodreads with 850536 ratings. Steven Pinker’s most popular book is Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humani...
Pinker's book The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011) posits that violence in human societies has generally declined over time, and identifies six major trends and five historical forces of this decline, the most important being the humanitarian revolution brought by the Enlightenment and its associated cultivation of reason.
Grasp the fact that the field is different for each book, and you have the measure of this scholar. Steven Pinker’s professional expertise encompasses linguistics, psychology, history, philosophy, evolutionary theory—the list goes on. There’s even a book on how to write good English—for, sure enough, he is a master of that too.”
Feb 13, 2018 · But the Enlightenment—with its dedication to science, reason, humanism, and progress—has led people to live longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives. And Pinker uses charts, data, history, and a firm dedication to his cause to empirically prove that we are living in better times.
Sep 28, 2021 · Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. Hardcover – September 28, 2021. by Steven Pinker (Author) 4.4 1,870 ratings. Editors' pick Best Nonfiction. See all formats and editions. Great on Kindle. Great Experience.
Aug 26, 2003 · by Steven Pinker (Author) 4.6 1,789 ratings. Part of: Allen Lane History (52 books) See all formats and editions. A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now.
Jan 1, 2001 · In this book, Steven Pinker describes our mind - more precisely: our mental faculties - as a complex set of algorithms, sculpted by natural selection. Pinker uses two theories - the computational theory of mind and the theory of evolution by natural selection - to accomplish this amazing feat.
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Steven Arthur Pinker is a prominent Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular science. Pinker is known for his wide-ranging explorations of human nature and its relevance to language, history, morality, politics, and everyday life.
Steven Pinker conducts research on a variety of topics in psychology and cognitive science, including common knowledge (things that everyone knows everyone knows), language acquisition, emotion, the moral sense, rationality, and trends in violence.
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