Steven Pinker

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TEDTalks : Chalking it up to the blank slate - Steven Pinker (2003) 00:00 Tools
TEDTalks : The stuff of thought - Steven Pinker (2005) 00:00 Tools
TEDTalks : A brief history of violence - Steven Pinker (2007) 00:00 Tools
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The Language Instinct 01 49:51 Tools
Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain 07:40 Tools
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The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature (Unabridged Nonfiction) 07:14 Tools
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On Free Will 21:36 Tools
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Political Correctness Might Be Redpilling America 07:14 Tools
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TEDTalks : Chalking it up to the blank slate - Steven Pinker (2004) 07:29 Tools
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1.1 Chapter 1 Standard equipment - Robot Challenge 21:36 Tools
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5 Main Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities 07:46 Tools
The Blank Slate (Unabridged) Part 1 07:46 Tools
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a window into human nature 25:00 Tools
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The Better Angels of Our Nature (Unabridged) Part 1 09:00 Tools
How the Mind Works (Unabridged) Part 1 31:30 Tools
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Unabridged) 04:27 Tools
The Blank Slate (Unabridged) Part 3 31:30 Tools
01 - The Better Angels of Our Nature; Why Violence Has Declined (Unabridged) 08:59 Tools
The stuff of thought 04:26 Tools
Progress, Despite Everything 04:26 Tools
What our language habits reveal 04:27 Tools
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Unabridged) Part 1 08:59 Tools
How The Mind Works 25:00 Tools
The Better Angels of Our Nature (Unabridged) Part 2 21:36 Tools
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The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature Part 3 of 4 21:36 Tools
The Stuff of Thought, Part 2 25:00 Tools
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1.2 Reverse-engineering the Psyche 04:27 Tools
1.3 Psychological correctness 05:54 Tools
The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews 05:54 Tools
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Unabridged) Part 2 25:58 Tools
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Enlightenment Now | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) 04:55 Tools
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The Better Angels of Our Nature (Unabridged) Part 5 18:58 Tools
04 - The Better Angels of Our Nature; Why Violence Has Declined (Unabridged) 26:42 Tools
Language and Consciousness, Part 1 Complete: Thinking Allowed w/ J. Mishlove 26:42 Tools
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03 - The Better Angels of Our Nature; Why Violence Has Declined (Unabridged) 25:56 Tools
02 - The Better Angels of Our Nature; Why Violence Has Declined (Unabridged) 21:34 Tools
8.2 Arts and entertainment 04:55 Tools
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Chapter 2 05:54 Tools
4.1 Chapter 4 The mind's eye - Deep eye 05:54 Tools
The Language Instinct 05:54 Tools
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4.2 Lighting, shading, shaping 05:54 Tools
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Unabridged) Part 1 05:54 Tools
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Chapter 3 05:54 Tools
8.4 The inquisitive in pursuit of the inconceivable 05:54 Tools
7.7 Allies and enemies - Humanity 05:54 Tools
Chapter 1 05:54 Tools
8.3 What's so funny 05:54 Tools
8.1 Chapter 8 The meaning of life 05:54 Tools
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9. Afterword (2009) 04:37 Tools
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Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a prominent Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist and author of popular science. Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, Pinker is known for his wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker’s academic specializations are visual cognition and language development in children, and he is most famous for popularizing the idea that language is an "instinct" or biological adaptation shaped by natural selection. On this point, he opposes Noam Chomsky and others who regard the human capacity for language to be the by-product of other adaptations. He is the author of five books for a general audience, which include The Language Instinct (1994), How the Mind Works (1997), 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. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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