Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker (born the September 18th 1954, with Montreal, Canada) is psychologist with the Université Harvard and author of works of scientific Vulgarisation. He was professor at the Department of cognitive sciences and brain with the Massachusetts institute off technology during 21 years before his return to Harvard in 2003.

Pinker wrote scientific works and of popularization on the Langage and the cognitive Sciences. He is recognized for his work on the process of training of the language in the children and to have developed the theory of Noam Chomsky on the language like a natural development of the evolutionary process.

Its most recent book The Blank Slate was finalist for the Prix Pulitzer. In 2004, it was named like one of the 100 most influential people of Time Magazine.

Books by Steven Pinker

Language Learnability and Language Development (1984)
Visual Cognition (1985)
Connections and Symbols (1988)
Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition off Argument Structure (1989)
Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (1992)
The Language Instinct (1994)
How the Mind Works (1996)
Words and Rules: The Ingredients off Language (1999)
The Blank Slate: The Denial off Human Natural in Modern Intellectual Life (2002)

Frenchwomen translation

instinct of the language , Odile Jacob, 1999
How functions the spirit, Odile Jacob, 2000
Comprendre human nature , Odile Jacob, 2005

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