Steven Pinker on language and thought

Steven Pinker on the myth of violence

Steven Pinker chalks it up to the blank slate

Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some people found it incredibly upsetting.

If they never do, then Pinker (probably among others) has misunderstood the point of a social constructionist argument.

Social constructionism has been criticized by evolutionary psychologists, including Steven Pinker in his book The Blank Slate .

Also, my favourite author is Steven Pinker while I like reading to Malcom Gladwell, Amin Maalouf, Dr Ghazi Algosaibi and Anis Mansour.

I also like to read about different topics. And when it comes to books, my favourite ones are The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker, Samarkand by Amin Maalouf, The Prophet by Khalil Gibran, The Perfume by Patrick Suskind and The Outliers by Malcom Gladwell.

Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

Harvard s Steven Pinker, in his seminal book The Better Angels of our Nature, put it in a larger historical context not just the Long Peace between the major powers since 1945, but, more important, a centuries old pattern of steady decline in the human appetite for violence.