Steven Pinker

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Steven Pinker is an evolutionary psychologist at Harvard. He was professor at the department of brain and cognitive science at MIT for 21 years. Pinker has written a number of popsci books on language and cognitive science, and how language is part of human instinct.

PopSci Bibliography

  • Language Learnability and Language Development (1984)
  • Visual Cognition (1985)
  • Connections and Symbols (1988)
  • Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (1989)
  • Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (1992)
  • The Language Instinct (1994)
  • How the Mind Works (1996)
  • Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (1999)
  • The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002)
  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing (editor and introduction author, 2004)

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