Steven Pinker
Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American psychologist and professor at Stanford and Harvard (involved in MK Ultra). Although he served as a gatekeeper of the official narrative of Darwinism and debunker of conspiracy theories (awarded with the Richard Dawkins Award by the Center for Inquiry and by National Academy of Sciences), he also collaborated with agents of the Conspiracy Church (LondonReal, Joe Rogan). He was educated at MCGill University (Ewen Cameron) and Harvard. |
His sister Susan Pinker wrote The Sexual Paradox. His wife Rebecca Goldstein was educated at CCNY and wrote a fiction novel about William James and was awarded with a National Science Foundation fellowship. She published in Commentary and The New Republic.
His linguistic theories were influenced by Noam Chomsky.
His book Enlightenment Now (romanticizing of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, pro-vaccination) was promoted by Bill Gates as his 'favorite book of all time'.
He participated in Talks at Google and interviews with Richard Dawkins, Bill Maher, Niall Ferguson, Stephen Fry, Derren Brown, Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, Yuval Harari.
He and his wife are affiliated with the Secular Coalition of America with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett (Philips Exter Academy, father worked for the OSS), Wendy Kaminer (ACLU), Salman Rushdie, Norman Lear (married to Frances Loeb of National Organization for Women), Carolyn Porco (research on Saturn, A&E of Hearst).
Like Margaret Sanger, Julian Huxley, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, BF Skinner, Erich Fromm, Gloria Steinem, Jonas Salk, Ashley Montagu, Bill Nye, Alice Walker, Carl Sagan, Ted Turner, Murray Gell-Man, Anthony Fauci, he was named Humanist of the Year.
born 9/18/1954.
Works
1985 Visual Cognition
1992 Lexical and Conceptual Semantics
1994 The Language Instinct How the Mind Creates Language
1997 How the Mind Works
1999 Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
2002 The Blank Slate (concept of John Locke) The Modern Denial of Human Nature
2004 The Best American Science and Nature Writing
2011 The Better Angels of Our Nature Why Violence Has Declined
2014 The Sense of Style
2018 Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress PenguinRandom
2021 Rationality What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters