In 2006 Steven Pinker wrote an unfavorable review of Lakoff's book Whose Freedom?

Pinker argued that Lakoff's propositions are unsupported and his prescriptions a recipe for electoral failure.

" Pinker attacks what he calls " Whorf's radical position ," declaring, " the more you examine Whorf's arguments, the less sense they make.

Lenneberg's 1964 paper " The Capacity of Language Acquisition ," originally published in 1960, sets forth seminal arguments about the human-specific biological capacity for language, which were then being developed in his research and discussions with George A. Miller, Noam Chomsky, and others at Harvard and MIT, and popularized by Steven Pinker in his book, The Language Instinct.

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.

* cognitive scientist Steven Pinker

Steven Arthur Pinker ( born September 18, 1954 ) is a Canadian-born experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist and popular science author.

* Pinker, S. ( 2003 ) " Language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche " In M. Christiansen & S. Kirby ( Eds.

* Steven Pinker ( born 1954 ), American cognitive scientist and popular science author

Notable brights include biologists Richard Dawkins and Richard J. Roberts, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, philosopher Daniel Dennett, and stage magicians and debunkers James Randi and Penn & Teller.

* Steven Pinker, experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist and author

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

Psychologist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker theorized that, rather than viewing Einstein's ( and other famously gifted late-talking individuals ) adult accomplishments as existing distinct from, or in spite of, his early language deficits, and rather than viewing Einstein's lingual delay itself as a " disorder ", it may be that Einstein's genius and his delay in speaking were developmentally intrinsic to one another.

According to psychologist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, our experiences of the world are represented in our minds as mental images.

Some scientists, including MIT linguist Noam Chomsky and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, are skeptical about claims made for great ape language research.

A few examples include Carl Sagan on astronomy, Jared Diamond on geography, Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins on evolutionary biology, Donald Norman on usability and cognitive psychology, Steven Pinker, Noam Chomsky, and Robert Ornstein on linguistics and cognitive science, Donald Johanson and Robert Ardrey on paleoanthropology, and Desmond Morris on zoology and anthropology, and Fulvio Melia on black holes.

Even the development of weapons systems themselves ( and Wright's discussion of their increasing complexity over time ) left him open to criticism, put into words by Steven Pinker, a linguist / cognitive scientist specializing in evolutionary psychology:

How the Mind Works is a 1997 book by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker.

Language module refers to a hypothesized structure in the human brain ( anatomical module ) or cognitive system ( functional module ) that some psycholinguists ( e. g., Steven Pinker ) claim contains innate capacities for language.

The latter view is famously expressed by noted cognitive scientist Steven Pinker when he refers to music as " auditory cheesecake ".

* Steven Pinker ( born 1954, class of 1971 ) Harvard College experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist and popular science author.

In his book The Blank Slate ( 2002 ), psychologist Steven Pinker identified five key ideas that made up the cognitive revolution:

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Amongst notable writers interviewed are novelist Charles R. Johnson, philosopher Daniel Dennett, journalist Pete Hamill, cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, the " first in-depth interview with poet James Emanuel ", paleontologist Jack Horner, essayist and film critic Phillip Lopate, zoologist Desmond Morris, journalist Charlie LeDuff, psi writer Brad Steiger, nature essayist Edward Hoagland, novelist Daniel Wallace, and actor / poet George Dickerson.

This stems from Gould's long-running public debate with E. O. Wilson and other evolutionary biologists over human sociobiology and its descendant evolutionary psychology, which Gould and Richard Lewontin opposed, but which Dennett advocated, together with Dawkins and Steven Pinker.

In 1990, Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom published their paper " Natural Language & Natural Selection " which strongly argued for an adaptationist approach to language origins.

" 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.

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.

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.

* In the 2009 series Pink Panther and Pals, a scene from A Pinker Tomorrow in which The Pink Panther tricks The Little Man ( Big Nose ) to cover the outside of the house in paint, is homage to the original short.

Prospect received worldwide attention in October 2005 when it published its list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals, which included Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and Christopher Hitchens.

In 2002, Wright ventured into video-on-Internet with his MeaningofLife. tv website, developed by Greg Dingle, in which he interviews a number of scholars, theologians, scientists and cosmic thinkers about their ideas and opinions regarding religion and spirituality, including Karen Armstrong, Daniel Dennett, Freeman Dyson, and Steven Pinker among others.

Steven Pinker argues that males have greater variance on many traits which is due to males having more variable reproductive success than females.

Many Christians do not agree on an exact definition of " dignity ," which leads some scientists to ignore this concern, seeing it as a vague excuse that some Christians use to justify cloning bans Or, if a definition is agreed upon, it may be challenged as being too weak, so that, according to Steven Pinker, a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, it is " hardly up to the heavyweight moral demands assigned to it.

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

Similarly, in his 2002 book, psychologist Steven Pinker endorses the view that hereditarianism is the empirically correct view of human nature, that this does have political implications which would constrain the goals of some liberal philosophies, but that embracing rather than rejecting the hereditarian view of human nature is the best way to achieve liberal goals.

In January 2005, Pinker defended Lawrence Summers, President of Harvard University, whose comments about a gender gap in mathematics and science angered much of the faculty.

Pinker has served on the editorial boards of journals such as Cognition, Daedalus, and PLOS One, and on the advisory boards of institutions for scientific research ( e. g., the Paul Allen Institute for Brain Science ), free speech ( e. g., the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ), the popularization of science ( e. g., the World Science Festival and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ), peace ( e. g., the Peace Research Endowment ), and secular humanism ( e. g., the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the Secular Coalition of America

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

* Steven Pinker ( born 1954 ), Canadian-American psychologist, linguist and popular science author

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

Steven Pinker explored this question in a popular science format in a 2007 book on language and cognition, using a widely publicized example from a speech by a U. S. president.