Steven Pinker
Autore di L'istinto del linguaggio: come la mente crea il linguaggio
Sull'Autore
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 altro 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 meno
Opere di Steven Pinker
Il declino della violenza. Perché quella che stiamo vivendo è probabilmente l'epoca più pacifica della storia (2011) 2,865 copie
Illuminismo adesso. In difesa della ragione, della scienza, dell'umanesimo e del progresso (2018) 2,023 copie
Opere correlate
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Collaboratore — 800 copie
L'espressione delle emozioni nell'uomo e negli animali (1872) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 754 copie
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Introduzione — 632 copie
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do (1998) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 562 copie
The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities (2012) — Prefazione — 288 copie
I nuovi umanisti: perché (e come) l'arte, la politica, la storia e la filosofia devono tener conto delle moderne… (2003) — Collaboratore — 230 copie
Wondering at the Natural Fecundity of Things: Essays in Honor of Alan Prince (2006) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Pinker, Steven
- Nome legale
- Pinker, Steven Arthur
- Data di nascita
- 1954-09-18
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
Canada (birth) - Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Palo Alto, California, USA
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Istruzione
- Dawson College (1973)
McGill University (BA|1976| Psychology)
Harvard University (Ph.D|1979 ∙ Experimental Psychology)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Postdoc) - Attività lavorative
- cognitive scientist
linguist
popular science author
university professor - Relazioni
- Goldstein, Rebecca (spouse)
Kosslyn, Stephen A. (doctoral advisor)
Pinker, Susan (sister) - Organizzazioni
- Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University - Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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 tutto 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) - Agente
- David Lavin Agency
Utenti
Discussioni
Are we living in the most peaceful era of world history? in History: On learning from and writing history (Settembre 2013)
Recensioni
Liste
Favourite Books (1)
Secular Ethics (1)
Book Club List (1)
Wisdom (1)
How it can be. (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 38
- Opere correlate
- 15
- Utenti
- 28,174
- Popolarità
- #717
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 391
- ISBN
- 330
- Lingue
- 17
- Preferito da
- 98