Stephanus Arthurus Pinker (natus Steven Arthur Pinker Monte Regali in Quebeco 18 Septembris 1954^[1][2]) est linguista, psychologus cognitivus, et auctor scientiae popularis Canadiano-Americanus. Professor familiae Johnstone in facultate psychologiae Universitatis Harvardianae, suasione psychologiae evolutationariae theoriaeque mentis computationalis innotuit.

Pinker diploma a Collegio Dawsoniano anno 1973, gradumque A.B. in psychologia ab Universitate McGilliana anno 1976 accepit. Doctoratum philosophiae in psychologia experimentali in Universitate Harvardiana anno 1979 sub Stephano Kosslyn meruit. Investigationes in Massachusettensi Instituto Technologiae uno anno fecit, tum professor adiutor in universitatibus Harvardiana et Stanfordiensi docuit.

Bibliographia

Libri

• 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 (Novi Eboraci: W. Morrow and Co., 1994)
• How the Mind Works (1997)
• 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)
• Hotheads (pars libri How the Mind Works, 2005), ISBN 978-0-14-102238-3.
• The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (2007)
• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011)
• Language, Cognition, and Human Nature: Selected Articles (2013)
• The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (September 30, 2014)
• Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (February 13, 2018)

Commentarii

• Commentarii et alia opera in paginis Universitatis Harvardianae.
• Pinker, S. (1991). "Rules of Language". Science 253 (5019): 530–535 
• Ullman, M.; Corkin, S.; Coppola, M.; Hickok, G.; Growdon, J. H.; Koroshetz, W. J.; Pinker, S. (1997). "A neural dissociation within language: Evidence that the mental dictionary is part of declarative memory, and that grammatical rules are processed by the procedural system". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 9 (2): 289–299 
• Pinker, S. 2003 "Language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche." In Language evolution: States of the Art, ed. M. Christiansen et S. Kirby. Novi Eboraci: Oxford University Press.
• Pinker, S. 2005. The Evolutionary Psychology of Religion.
• Pinker, S. (2005). "So How Does the Mind Work?". Mind and Language 20 (1): 1–24 
• Jackendoff, R.; Pinker, S. (2005). "The nature of the language faculty and its implications for evolution of language" (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, & Chomsky)". Cognition 97 (2): 211–225 
• In Defense of Dangerous Ideas. . Steven Pinker. July 15, 2007 
• Pinker, S. 2012. "The False Allure of Group Selection". Edge, 19 Iunii 2012.
• Pinker, S. 2013. Science Is Not Your Enemy. New Republic, 6 Auigusti 2013.
• Pinker, S. 2014. "The Trouble With Harvard: The Ivy League is broken and only standardized tests can fix it." New Republic, 4 Septembris 2014.

Notae

Nexus interni

• Noam Chomsky
• Ricardus Dawkins
• Daniel Dennett
• Samuel Harris
• Christophorus Hitchens

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Stephanum Pinker spectant.

Vicicitatio habet citationes quae ad Stephanum Pinker spectant.

• Situs interretialis Pinker proprius.
• Recognitio libri "Enlightenment Now."

Colloquia

• Colloquium generis "7th Avenue" de "Better Angels" (2014).
• "Steven Pinker on The Hour."
• Multimedia ad Stephanum Pinker perdinentia.
• Colloquium in Mosaic Science (Wellcome).

Acroases

• "The Better Angels of our Nature.", Royal Institution, November 2011.
• "Linguistics, Style and Writing in the 21st Century: With Steven Pinker." Royal Institution, October 2015
• "Q&A – Linguistics, style and writing with Steven Pinker." Royal Institution, October 2015.
• Colloquium: Steven Pinker et Michael Shermer. Pangburn, September 2018.

Disceptationes

• "The Two Steves Debate," cum Stephano Pinker et Steven Rose neurobiologo.]
• "The Science of Gender and Science." Disceptatio cum Stephano Pinker et Elizabeth Spelke, psychologa cognitiva,] Pellicula in YouTube.
• "The Decline of Violence." Disceptatio cum Stephano Pinker, Judith Marquand, Andrea Copson (praeside British Humanist Association), et Roger Bolton (praeside exsecutivo BBC).