" According to Steven Pinker, EP is " not a single theory but a large set of hypotheses " and a term which " has also come to refer to a particular way of applying evolutionary theory to the mind, with an emphasis on adaptation, gene-level selection, and modularity.

Jaynes's theory has been influential to philosophers such as Daniel Dennett, psychologists such as Tim Crow and Steven Pinker, and psychiatrists such as Henry Nasrallah.

On the other hand, Steven Pinker has observed that mondegreen mishearings tend to be less plausible than the original lyrics, and that once a listener has " locked in " to a particular misheard interpretation of a song's lyrics, it can remain unquestioned, even when that plausibility becomes strained.

Steven Pinker has described two logical fallacies.

According to Steven Pinker, the Kivunjo language has 16 noun classes including classes for precise locations and for general locales, classes for clusters or pairs of objects and classes for the objects that come in pairs or clusters, and classes for abstract qualities.

In 2011 Pinker published The Better Angels of Our Nature, which argued that violence has decreased over multiple scales of time and magnitude, including tribal warfare, homicide, cruel punishments, child abuse, animal cruelty, domestic violence, lynching, pogroms, and international and civil wars.

The assumptions underlying the nativist view have also been subject to sustained criticism in Jeffrey Elman's Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development ( Neural Networks and Connectionist Modeling ), which defends the connectionist approach that Pinker has criticized.

David Shenk has criticized Pinker for an article he wrote in The New York Times which addressed the nature versus nurture debate.

Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker has argued that the game theoretic advantages of ethical behavior support the idea that morality is " out there " in a certain sense ( as part of the evolutionary fitness landscape ).

If they never do, then Pinker ( probably among others ) has misunderstood the point of a social constructionist argument.

Pinker sets out to disabuse the reader of a number of common ideas about language, e. g. that children must be taught to use it, that most people's grammar is poor, that the quality of language is steadily declining, that language has a heavy influence on a person's possible range of thoughts ( the Sapir – Whorf hypothesis ), and that nonhuman animals have been taught language ( see Great Ape language ).

Difference feminism has been criticized for claiming that the sexes differ in their style of reasoning by evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker.

Steven Pinker concluded that " Group Selection has no useful role to play in psychology or social science.

The two girls seem to be on good terms, Madeline supporting Stiffy's secret engagement to Stinker Pinker, but Stiffy has little trouble in perceiving Bertie's unwillingness to be leg-shackled to La Belle Bassett and makes extensive use of said unwillingness with blackmail.

Parallels can then be drawn, on a purely speculative level, between our moral faculties and language, as has been done by sociobiologists such as E. O. Wilson and evolutionary psychologists such as Steven Pinker.

Pinker argues that modern science has challenged three " linked dogmas " that constitute the dominant view of human nature in intellectual life:

In a letter to Slate Magazine, Harvard University psychology professor Steven Pinker maintained that he has not read MacDonald's books because his theses were unable to pass the threshold of attention-worthiness:

However, other evidence from developmental studies has been presented ( most famously by Pinker, 1994, pp. 37 – 43 ) as supporting a language module, namely the purported dissociation between Specific Language Impairment ( SLI ), where language is disrupted whilst other mental abilities are not ( van der Lely, 2005 ), and Williams Syndrome ( WS ) where language is said to be spared despite severe mental deficits ( Bellugi et al.

Steven Pinker has criticized this view, which he terms " holistic interactionism ".

Pinker gives the example of a student " stubbornly " mishearing the chorus to I'm Your Venus as " I'm Your Penis ," and being surprised that the song was allowed on the radio.

Strunk and White have been proven wrong on this point by logical analysis of quantification in natural language ( like Pinker following Lewis and others above ) — distributive expressions are neither exclusively singular nor exclusively plural, they are typically indeterminate in number.

Pinker argues that usage of singular they in English cannot be condemned on grammatical grounds, because it is probably better understood as a linguistic marker of a bound variable rather than as a pronoun with a referent.

Steven Pinker on the English singular " their " construction.

– Discussion with atheists Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker on Edge Foundation.

" Many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses .”-Steven Pinker

Gladwell evaluated a performance on a per-play basis, whereas Pinker and Advanced NFL Stats evaluated performance based on total overall productivity based on the assumption that starters were superior players to backups.

Pinker ’ s research on visual cognition, begun in collaboration with his thesis adviser Stephen Kosslyn, showed that mental images represent scenes and objects as they appear from a specific vantage point ( rather than capturing their intrinsic three-dimensional structure ), and thus correspond to the neuroscientist David Marr ’ s theory of a “ two-and-a-half-dimensional sketch .” He also showed that this level of representation is used in visual attention, and in object recognition ( at least for asymmetrical shapes ), contrary to Marr ’ s theory that recognition uses viewpoint-independent representations.

* Steven Pinker on The Hour

* Live interview with Steven Pinker on The Blank Slate

Lakoff wrote a rebuttal to the review stating that his position on many matters is the exact reverse of what Pinker attributes to him.

Steven Pinker wrote on the subject:

Steven Pinker wrote on the subject:

On November 5, 2010 the University announced that cognitive scientist Steve Pinker would inaugurate the new Paul Kurtz Lecture Series on December 2, 2010.

Steven Pinker acknowledged that he had " not plowed through MacDonald's trilogy and therefore run the complementary risks of being unfair to his arguments, and of not refuting them resoundingly enough to distance them from my own views on evolutionary psychology ", but states that MacDonald's theses are unable to pass the threshold of attention-worthiness or peer-approval, and contain a " consistently invidious portrayal of Jews, couched in value-laden, disparaging language.

The musicians who performed on this album, as well as on the EP, were Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard, Paul Erikson, James Pinker, Scott Rodger and Peter Ulrich.

As Pinker illustrates in his book the " The Language Instinct ", claims that chimpanzees can acquire language are exaggerated and rest on very limited or specious data.

In the area of language acquisition, for example, some ( such as Steven Pinker ) have argued that specific information containing universal grammatical rules must be contained in the genes, whereas others ( such as Jeffrey Elman and colleagues in Rethinking Innateness ) have argued that Pinker's claims are biologically unrealistic.

Some natural languages have become naturally " standardized " by children's natural tendency to correct for illogical grammar structures in their parents ' language, which can be seen in the development of pidgin languages into creole languages ( as explained by Steven Pinker in The Language Instinct ), but this is not the case in many languages, including constructed languages such as Esperanto, where strict rules are in place as an attempt to consciously remove such irregularities.

One tradition of interpretation exemplified by his critics such as Eric Lenneberg, Max Black and Steven Pinker attributes him a very strong view of linguistic determinism, according to which commensuration between conceptual schemes and translation between languages is impossible.

Still, detractors such as Eric Lenneberg, Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker have criticized him for not being sufficiently clear in his formulation of how he meant language influences thought, and for not providing actual proof of his assumptions.

Universalist scholars such as Steven Pinker often see Malotki's study as a final refutation of Whorf's claim about Hopi, whereas relativist scholars such as John A Lucy and Penny Lee have criticized Malotki's study for mischaracterizing Whorf's claims and for forcing Hopi grammar into a pregiven model of analysis that doesn't fit the data.

Pinker noted that Summers's remarks, properly understood, were hypotheses about overlapping statistical distributions of men ’ s and women ’ s talents and tastes, and that in a university such hypotheses ought to be the subject of empirical testing rather than dogma and outrage.

Webb was a stickler for accurate details, and Dragnet used many authentic touches, such as the LAPD's actual radio call sign ( KMA367 ), and the names of many real department officials, such as Ray Pinker and Lee Jones of the crime lab or Chief of Detectives ( and later LAPD Chief from 1967 – 69 ) Thad Brown.

Pinker explains that a universal grammar represents specific structures in the human brain that recognize the general rules of other humans ' speech, such as whether the local language places adjectives before or after nouns, and begin a specialized and very rapid learning process not explainable as reasoning from first principles or pure logic.

The album featured tracks from the album Live @ The Clubhouse as well as remix tributes of " Genius Of Love " by such artists as Ozomatli, Nortec Collective, Kinky, Mexican Institute of Sound, Money Mark and The Pinker Tones.

Neuroscientist Steven Pinker postulates that a certain form of language delay may be associated with exceptional and innate analytical prowess in some individuals, such as Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman and Edward Teller.

Steven Pinker writes that the book's authors use words such as " determinism " and " reductionism " as " vague terms of abuse ", and misrepresent the views of scientists such as Edward O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins, falsely ascribing ridiculous beliefs to them.