Steven Pinker

Steven Arthur Pinker (Montréal, 18 shtator 1954) është një docent psikologjie në Harvard University si dhe autor i librave të ndryshëm rreth tellallisjes shkencore.Steven Pinker – About. Department of Psychology Harvard University  Accessed 28 February 2010.

Pinker njihet për punën e vet mbi procesin e të nxënit të gjuhës tek fëmija dhe për zhvillimin e (mëtejshëm të) teorisë së Noam Chomskyt rreth gjuhës si një zhvillim natyror i një procesi evolutiv.

Livri i tij The Blank Slate ka qenë finalist për Çmimin Pulitzer. Në vitin 2004 Pinker u tregua nga revista Time si një prej 100 personave me më shumë ndikim në botë. Libri i tij i fundit titullohet The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011).

Bibliografia
Libra
 Language Learnability and Language Development (1984) ISBN 978-0-674-51055-5
 Visual Cognition (1985) ISBN 978-0-262-66178-2
 Connections and Symbols (1988) ISBN 978-0-262-66064-8
 Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (1989) ISBN 978-0-262-66073-0
 Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (1992) ISBN 978-1-55786-354-6
 The Language Instinct (1994) ISBN 978-0-06-097651-4
 How the Mind Works (1997) ISBN 978-0-393-31848-7
 Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (1999) ISBN 978-0-465-07269-9
 The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002) ISBN 978-0-670-03151-1
 The Best American Science and Nature Writing (editor and introduction author, 2004) ISBN 978-0-618-24698-4
 Hotheads (an extract from How the Mind Works, 2005) ISBN 978-0-14-102238-3
 The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (2007) ISBN 978-0-670-06327-7
 The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011) ISBN 978-0-670-02295-3
 Language, Cognition, and Human Nature: Selected Articles (2013) ISBN 978-0-19-932874-1
 The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (September 30, 2014) ISBN 978-0-670-02585-5

Artikuj dhe ese
  Selective compilation of articles and other works, hosted at Harvard faculty pages


 Pinker, S. (2003) "Language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche" In M. Christiansen & S. Kirby (Eds.), Language evolution: States of the Art New York: Oxford University Press.


 Pinker, S. (2007), "In Defense of Dangerous Ideas" Chicago Sun-Times, July 15, 2007
 Pinker, S. (2012). The False Allure of Group Selection. Edge, Jun 19, 2012.
 Pinker, S. (2013). Science Is Not Your Enemy. The New Republic, Aug 6, 2013.
 Pinker, S. (2014). The Trouble With Harvard: The Ivy League is broken and only standardized tests can fix it. The New Republic, Sep 4, 2014.

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Intervista
 7th Avenue interview on "Better Angels", 2014
 Steven Pinker on The Hour
 Steven Pinker Multimedia  audio and video files
 Mosaic Science (Wellcome) interview 

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