Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker has written at least 58 books. Their most popular book is Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress with 264 saves with an average rating of 4.1⭐.

Author Bio

Steven Arthur "Steve" Pinker is a Canadian-born American cognitive scientist, psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.

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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
  • Steven Pinker
4.172 reads
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
  • Steven Pinker
3.9155 reads
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
  • Steven Pressfield
  • Soman Chainani
  • Neil Strauss
  • Veronica Belmont
  • Annie Duke
  • Arianna Huffington
  • Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Tim O'Reilly
  • Brené Brown
  • Mike D.
  • Kevin Kelly
  • Eric Ripert
  • Sharon Salzberg
  • Ray Dalio
  • Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Linda Rottenberg
  • Caroline Paul
  • Evan Williams
  • Chris Anderson
  • Neil Gaiman
  • Marie Forleo
  • Steven Pinker
  • Gretchen Rubin
  • Jocko Willink
  • Kristen Ulmer
4.1453 reads
The Blank Slate
The Blank Slate
  • Steven Pinker
4.1834 reads
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
  • Steven Pinker
3.9543 reads
The Sense of Style
The Sense of Style
  • Steven Pinker
3.9831 reads
How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works
  • Steven Pinker
419 reads
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
  • Steven Pinker
3.4425 reads
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
  • Steven Pinker
3.619 reads
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
  • Steven Pinker
4.336 reads
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
  • Steven Pinker
38 reads
Words and Rules
Words and Rules
  • Steven Pinker
4.56 reads
A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow
A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow
  • Joshua S. Goldstein
  • Staffan A. Qvist
23 reads
How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works
  • Steven Pinker
44 reads
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Mental Immunity

Mental Immunity
  • Andy Norman
22 reads
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?
  • Steven Pinker
  • Matt Ridley
  • Alain de Botton
  • Malcolm Gladwell
44 reads
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
  • Steven Pinker
22 reads
Enlightenment Now
Enlightenment Now
  • Steven Pinker
53 reads
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The Language Instinct

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
  • Steven Pinker
4.53 reads
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
  • Steven Pinker
43 reads
How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works
  • Steven Pinker
00 reads
The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Better Angels of Our Nature
  • Steven Pinker
4.52 reads
The Seven Words You Can't Say On Television
The Seven Words You Can't Say On Television
  • Steven Pinker
33 reads
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Enlightenment Now

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress [Paperback] [Feb 12, 2018] Steven Pinker
  • Steven Pinker
41 read
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Enlightenment Now

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
  • Steven Pinker
31 read
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The Better Angels of Our Nature

The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes
  • Steven Pinker
52 reads
What Are You Optimistic About?
What Are You Optimistic About?
  • John Brockman
  • John McCarthy
  • Sam Harris
  • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Brian Greene
  • Jared Diamond
  • John Horgan
  • Martin Rees
  • Carlo Rovelli
  • Daniel C. Dennett
  • Andrew Brown
  • Michael Shermer
  • Clay Shirky
  • J. Craig Venter
  • Douglas Rushkoff
  • Anton Zeilinger
  • Leonard Susskind
  • Geoffrey Miller
  • Marcelo Gleiser
  • Martin E. P. Seligman
  • Freeman J. Dyson
  • Jerry Adler
  • Gino Segrè
  • Lawrence Maxwell Krauss
  • Robert Shapiro
  • Frank Wilczek
  • Paul J. Steinhardt
  • Lee Smolin
  • Lisa Randall
  • Charles Seife
  • Karl Sabbagh
  • Alexander Vilenkin
  • Max Tegmark
  • Richard Dawkins
  • Chris Anderson
  • Steven Pinker
00 reads
Racionalidade: o que é, porque parece rara e porque importa
Racionalidade: o que é, porque parece rara e porque importa
  • Steven Pinker
00 reads
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The Stone Reader

The Stone Reader
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    Language, Cognition, and Human Nature: Selected Articles
    Language, Cognition, and Human Nature: Selected Articles
    • Steven Pinker
    01 read
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    Rationality

    Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
    • Steven Pinker
    31 read
    Enlightenment now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress
    Enlightenment now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads
    O Iluminismo Agora: Em Defesa da Razão, Ciência, Humanismo e Progresso
    O Iluminismo Agora: Em Defesa da Razão, Ciência, Humanismo e Progresso
    • Steven Pinker
    01 read
    Los ángeles que llevamos dentro. El declive de la violencia y sus implicaciones
    Los ángeles que llevamos dentro. El declive de la violencia y sus implicaciones
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads
    En defensa de la Ilustración: Por la razón, la ciencia, el humanismo y el progreso
    En defensa de la Ilustración: Por la razón, la ciencia, el humanismo y el progreso
    • Steven Pinker
    41 read
    Os Anjos Bons da Nossa Natureza: Por Que a Violência Diminuiu
    Os Anjos Bons da Nossa Natureza: Por Que a Violência Diminuiu
    • Steven Pinker
    • Bernardo Joffily (Translator)
    • Laura Teixeira Motta (Translator)
    00 reads
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    The Sense of Style

    The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
    • Steven Pinker
    41 read
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    The Secret Life of Verbs

    The Secret Life of Verbs: A BIT of Learnability and Cognition
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads
    The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and The Mind
    The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and The Mind
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads
    Lepší andělé naší přirozenosti: Proč ubývá násilí
    Lepší andělé naší přirozenosti: Proč ubývá násilí
    • Steven Pinker
    • Zuzana Gabajová (Translator)
    00 reads
    Overregularization in Language Acquisition
    Overregularization in Language Acquisition
    • Gary F. Marcus
    • Steven Pinker
    • Michael Ullman
    • Michelle Hollander
    00 reads
    Os Anjos Bons da Nossa Natureza
    Os Anjos Bons da Nossa Natureza
    • Steven Pinker
    01 read
    Aufklärung jetzt: Für Vernunft, Wissenschaft, Humanismus und Fortschritt. Eine Verteidigung
    Aufklärung jetzt: Für Vernunft, Wissenschaft, Humanismus und Fortschritt. Eine Verteidigung
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads
    On the origin of art
    On the origin of art
    • David Walsh
    • Elizabeth Pearce
    • Steven Pinker
    • Brian Boyd
    • Geoffrey Miller
    • Mark Changizi
    51 read
    El instinto del lenguaje
    El instinto del lenguaje
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads
    The stuff of thought
    The stuff of thought
    • Steven Pinker
    01 read
    Guia de Escrita: Como Conceber Um Texto com Clareza, Precisão e Elegância
    Guia de Escrita: Como Conceber Um Texto com Clareza, Precisão e Elegância
    • Steven Pinker
    • Rodolfo Ilari (Translator)
    00 reads
    Tábula Rasa
    Tábula Rasa
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads
    Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships
    Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships
    • Alan Page Fiske
    • Tage Shakti Rai
    01 read
    Learnability and Cognition, new edition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure
    Learnability and Cognition, new edition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads
    O Novo Iluminismo
    O Novo Iluminismo
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads
    Лучшее в нас. Почему насилия в мире стало меньше
    Лучшее в нас. Почему насилия в мире стало меньше
    • Steven Pinker
    • Стивен Пинкер
    • Галина Бородина (Translator)
    • Светлана Кузнецова (Translator)
    00 reads
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    La tabla rasa

    La tabla rasa
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads
    La tabla rasa: La negación moderna de la naturaleza humana
    La tabla rasa: La negación moderna de la naturaleza humana
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads
    Gewalt
    Gewalt
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads
    El sentido del estilo
    El sentido del estilo
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads
    Come funziona la mente
    Come funziona la mente
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads
    L'istinto del linguaggio
    L'istinto del linguaggio
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads
    Language learnability and language development
    Language learnability and language development
    • Steven Pinker
    00 reads