Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker - "Enlightenment Now..." | Talks at Google Tuesday, July 9, 2019

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The past, present, and future of violence, at World Bank, Washington D.C., Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Creating Language in Man and Machine, at Bolyston Hall, 110 Fong Auditorium, Harvard Univeristy, Cambridge, MA, Tuesday, October 18, 2016

From neurons to consciousness, at New College of the Humanities - New York, New York, Monday, October 3, 2016

The Elephant, the Emperor, and the Matzo Ball, at 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, Illinois, Monday, June 6, 2016

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"The Sense of Style: The Thinking Persons' Guide to Writing in the 21st Century" , at Cary Hall - Lexington, MA, Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Steven Pinker, an experimental psychologist at Harvard, cognitive scientist and linguist, has been named as one of the world’s most influential intellectuals, and has written ten books including The Language Instinct and The Better Angels of our Nature. In The Sense of Style, he asks why so much writing is so bad.

Linguistics, Style and Writing in the 21st Century - with Steven Pinker Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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"20" Questions. Steven Pinker on Violence, at Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard, Thursday, February 16, 2012

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The Better Angels of Our Nature @ Google, at Google Mountainview, Thursday, October 27, 2011

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The Edge Master Class 2011 Tuesday, September 27, 2011

What may be the most important thing that has ever happened in human history is that violence has gone down, by dramatic degrees, and in many dimensions all over the world and in many spheres of behavior: genocide, war, human sacrifice, torture, slavery, and the treatment of racial minorities, women, children, and animals. Click here to read about and see video of Steven Pinker talking at the Edge Master Class 2011.

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