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Steven Pinker.
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
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Pinker traces two centuries of gains in life expectancy and poverty to reason and science
Measurable human welfare has surged since the 1700s because societies applied reason, science, and humanism, not because history drifts upward on its own.
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About Steven Pinker
Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker is the Johnstone Family professor of psychology at Harvard University.
Everything about Steven Pinker →- Occupation
- psychologist, linguist, anthropologist, philosopher
- Citizenship
- United States, Canada
- Born
- September 18, 1954
- Website
- http://stevenpinker.com/