Steven Pinker
Birth date: September 18, 1954
Steven Pinker's Books
I actually didn't finish this one- I wish there were an option for "set aside for now"- because it reminded me too much of the controversy I lived through in my college days in the late 90s. While I agree with Pinker's position (and loved his Better Angels of Our Nature ) I had no wish to relive th...
I read Stephen Pinker books, including this one on violence. So it is why I know that jerk John Gray hasn't really read the book. Or read the book but didn't really read it. You couldn't browse through a book and pretended you comprehend it. Study (citation later) shows that browsing is just ski...
I found this very useful in both my work, which is editing other people’s drafts, and my own writing. Some of it is a bit of psychological wank (Pinker is also a cognitive scientist), but there’s enough interesting, clear and useful stuff here that I’d recommend it for people who want to communicate...