THIS is not a modest title, and How the Mind Works is not a modest book. But you’ll have to read it. Its author, Steven Pinker, is a cognitive psychologist, and was once a disciple of the linguist Noam Chomsky but has long since dropped his pilot. His present guides, as he tells...
A Critical Re- view of Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works', Philosophical Psy- chology 14(2), 227-243. A more detailed version of this paper is available from the author, and is currently available online at http://www.rpi.edu/∼faheyj2/SB/SELPAP/PINKER/pinker.rev2.pdf....
Steven Pinker 加拿大–美国实验心理学家、认知科学家和科普作家,哈佛大学心理学教授。著有《语言本能》(The Language Instinct)、《心智探奇》(How the Mind Works)、《思想本质》(The Stuff of Thought)、《白板》(The Blank Slate)等。他的书籍已经赢得了无数奖项而且是《纽约时报》的畅销书。
Clear, balanced, and lively.--Steven Pinker, bestselling author of How the Mind Works ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE RIGHT RISKS? Do you worry more about radiation ... D Ropeik,G Gray - 《Riskmanagement》 被引量: 12发表: 2010年 How Steven Pinker's mind works The year 1997 was a big one ...
Author ofThe Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language 42+ Works29,336 Members403 Reviews99 Favorited About the Author Steven Pinker is an authority on language and the mind. He is Peter de Florez professor of psychology in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachus...
I am a psycholinguist and a cognitive scientist, and what is style, after all, but the effective use of words to engage the human mind? It’s all the more captivating to someone who seeks to explain these fields to a wide readership. I think about how language works so that I can ...
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Psychology at Harvard University. He writes for publications such as theNew York Times,TimeandThe Atlantic, and is the author of several books includingThe Language Instinct,How the Mind Works,The Blank Slate,The Stuff of Thought,The Better Angels of Our Nature,The Sense of...
Steven Pinker: Absolutely. I liked her prose so much that I married the author. Yes. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Rebecca said that you have changed the way she thinks. How doessheinfluence you? Steven Pinker: Each of us influence the other. ...
He's also the author of the bestsellers How the Mind Works and The Language Instinct. His new book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Viking), is likely to continue his string of publishing successes--and to keep him at the red-hot center of discussions over the ...