Pinker than sassafras tea.

Steven Pinker on language and thought

Steven Pinker on the myth of violence

Right below him, 0.5 percent, Steven Pinker.

Steven Pinker chalks it up to the blank slate

So the pinker the belly, the better the system.

My name is Steve Pinker, and I'm Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.

Social constructionism has been criticized by evolutionary psychologists, including Steven Pinker in his book The Blank Slate .

So here Steve Pinker and I were considering the magnitude of wars during the last two centuries.

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

Steve Pinker has showed us that, in fact, we're living during the most peaceful time ever in human history.

I've been to some of those continents, but Africa was, in the words of Steven Pinker, was a blank slate, largely.

Also, my favourite author is Steven Pinker while I like reading to Malcom Gladwell, Amin Maalouf, Dr Ghazi Algosaibi and Anis Mansour.

Both Fish and Pinker agree that the sorts of objects indicated here can be described as part of what John Searle calls social reality.

Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some people found it incredibly upsetting.

In an exclusive preview of his book i The Stuff of Thought i , Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize.

Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

Pinker accepts that reason is an important factor underlying the trends that he describes. In support of this claim, he refers to the Flynn Effect the remarkable finding by the philosopher James Flynn that since IQ tests were first administered, scores have risen considerably.

I also like to read about different topics. And when it comes to books, my favourite ones are The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker, Samarkand by Amin Maalouf, The Prophet by Khalil Gibran, The Perfume by Patrick Suskind and The Outliers by Malcom Gladwell.

Pinker argues that enhanced powers of reasoning give us the ability to detach ourselves from our immediate experience and from our personal or parochial perspective, and frame our ideas in more abstract, universal terms. This, in turn, leads to better moral commitments, including avoidance of violence.

Harvard s Steven Pinker, in his seminal book The Better Angels of our Nature, put it in a larger historical context not just the Long Peace between the major powers since 1945, but, more important, a centuries old pattern of steady decline in the human appetite for violence.

In his latest book, Harvard professor Steven Pinker and many other thinkers before him concludes that one of the main drivers behind less violent societies is the spread of the constitutional state and the introduction, on a large scale, of the state monopoly on the legitimized use of violence