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Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. He grew up in Montreal and earned his BA from McGill and his PhD from Harvard. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. He has won numerous prizes for his research, his teaching, and his nine books, including
The Language Instinct
,
How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature,
and
The Sense of Style
. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary doctorates, and one of
Foreign Policy
’s “World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals” and
Time
’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.” He is Chair of the Usage Panel of the
American Heritage Dictionary
, and writes frequently for
The New York Times
,
The Guardian,
and other publications. His tenth book, to be published in February 2018, is called
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.
Sessions
Psi Chi and Cognitive Keynote: Steven Pinker