Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Cognitive scientist and psycholinguist, author of 'The Language Instinct'.
1954, Montreal, Canada
Canada · United States
Steven Pinker is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Cognitive scientist and psycholinguist, author of 'The Language Instinct'.
Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive scientist and psycholinguist whose books, including The Language Instinct, popularized the view that language is an evolved human faculty rooted in the mind's biology. He has taught at MIT and Harvard and become a widely read public intellectual. He was raised in the English-speaking Jewish community of Montreal.
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Cognitive scientist and psycholinguist, author of 'The Language Instinct'.
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