Steven Pinker

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• Pinker on Gladwell

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 736
  Steven Pinker takes Malcolm Gladwell to task in a NYT book review . "But Gladwell frequently holds forth about statistics and psychology, and his lack of technical grounding in these subjects can be jarring." "The common thread in Gladwells writing is a kind of populism, which seeks to undermine the ideals of talent, ...
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• Steven Pinker Reviews Malcolm Gladwell

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 485
  One "all knowing" social scientist reviews another - partial truths all around. Pinke ris not kind his assessment - a smell a feud brewing. WHAT THE DOG SAW And Other Adventures By Malcolm Gladwell 410 pp. Little, Brown & Company. $27.99 Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective Todd ...
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• Deep Rationality

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
    Charles Darwin and Daniel Kahneman: Radical changes are in store when these two men are properly introduced to one another.  Behavioral economics has become an increasingly popular topic over the last few years, as demonstrated by the success of a string of books like Predictably Irrational, Nudge, and ...
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• Watch Steven Pinker’s “Language and Thought” talk at TED

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 127
  In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought , 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’s books have been like bombs tossed into the eternal nature-versus-nurture debate. ...
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• How do we talk?

  
  English Language @ SFX — Authority: 109
  There was a really good documentary about childrens language development on BBC2s Horizon programme last night, called How Do We Talk? Have a look here on BBCs i-player this week to watch it. And theres more on Deb Roys massive child language data experiment here on a blog post back in July of this year. ...
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• The Myth of Violence

  
  skepticlawyer — Authority: 512
  … Or, as John Humphries often says, don’t be scared. Not everything Steven Pinker says in this is right, but most of it is, and it’s a salutary reminder of the gifts bestowed by science, technology, markets and the old trifecta of ‘peace, order and good government.’ More reasons why this little black duck ...
  1 week ago

• Blank Slate Steven Pinker

  
  ScentTrail Marketing — Authority: 123
  Love this Colbert interview with Harvard Psychology professor and writer Steven Pinker. Ridiculously smart, Steven Pinker is pitching his book The Blank Slate (need to read this). Stephen Colbert turns to Pinker trying to put him on the spot and asks, "Your specialty is the brain and how it works, so how does the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind by Steven Pinker

  
  Cogita Tute - Think For Yourself — Authority: 125
  This guy is very clever. He is even cleverer at explaining the clever things he thinks about in such a clever way that you dont need to be nearly as clever as him to get to drips with them. I confess to getting completely lost in the grammar discussions and skipping forwards a little. But even then I found the rest ...
  3 weeks ago

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