Steven Pinker
Autor/a de The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Sobre l'autor
Steven Pinker is an authority on language and the mind. He is Peter de Florez professor of psychology in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Steven Arthur Pinker was born on September 18, 1954 in Canada. mostra'n més He is an experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist, and author. He is a psychology professor at Harvard University. He is the author of several non-fiction books including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought, and The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. His research in cognitive psychology has won the Early Career Award in 1984 and Boyd McCandless Award in 1986 from the American Psychological Association, the Troland Research Award in 1993 from the National Academy of Sciences, the Henry Dale Prize in 2004 from the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the George Miller Prize in 2010 from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. He was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in 1998 and in 2003. In 2006, he received the American Humanist Association's Humanist of the Year award for his contributions to public understanding of human evolution. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Steven Pinker
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (2014) 1,521 exemplars
Language and Mind (Science Masters Series) 4 exemplars
Bolji anđeli naše prirode 1 exemplars
暴力の人類史 上 1 exemplars
Mental Imagery and the Third Dimension 1 exemplars
Formal models of language learning 1 exemplars
100 Philosophy 1 exemplars
Obres associades
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Col·laborador — 770 exemplars
L'expressió de les emocions en l'home i en els animals (1872) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 732 exemplars
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Introducció — 617 exemplars
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do (1998) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 543 exemplars
The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities (2012) — Pròleg — 275 exemplars
Wondering at the Natural Fecundity of Things: Essays in Honor of Alan Prince (2006) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
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- Nom normalitzat
- Pinker, Steven
- Nom oficial
- Pinker, Steven Arthur
- Data de naixement
- 1954-09-18
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
Canada (birth) - País (per posar en el mapa)
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Llocs de residència
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Palo Alto, California, USA
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Educació
- Dawson College (1973)
McGill University (BA|1976| Psychology)
Harvard University (Ph.D|1979 ∙ Experimental Psychology)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Postdoc) - Professions
- cognitive scientist
linguist
popular science author
university professor - Relacions
- Goldstein, Rebecca (spouse)
Kosslyn, Stephen A. (doctoral advisor)
Pinker, Susan (sister) - Organitzacions
- Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University - Premis i honors
- Troland Award, National Academy of Sciences (1993)
Henry Dale Prize from the Royal Institute of Great Britain (2004)
Humanist of the Year (2006)
Kistler Prize (2005)
Richard Dawkins Award (2013)
William James Fellow Award (2016) (mostra-les totes 12)
National Academy of Sciences (2016)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998)
Boyd McCandless Award (1986)
George Miller Prize (2010)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022)
Golden Plate Award (1998, 2003) - Agent
- David Lavin Agency
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Converses
Are we living in the most peaceful era of world history? a History: On learning from and writing history (setembre 2013)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 38
- També de
- 15
- Membres
- 27,381
- Popularitat
- #749
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 375
- ISBN
- 324
- Llengües
- 19
- Preferit
- 96
- Pedres de toc
- 326