史迪芬·平克

In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many …

Bad writing can't be blamed on the Internet, or on 'the kids today'. Good writing has always been hard: a performance requiring pretense, empathy, and a drive for coherence. In The Sense of Style, cognitive scientist and linguist Steven Pinker uses the latest scientific insights to bring us a style and usage guide for …

The Stuff of Thought is an exhilarating work of non-fiction. Surprising, thought-provoking and incredibly enjoyable, there is no other book like it - Steven Pinker will revolutionise the way you think about language. He analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and he reveals what this can tell us about …

“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."—Bill Gates (May, 2017)Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the YearThe author of Enlightenment Now and The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial …

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language is a 1999 popular linguistics book by Steven Pinker on the subject of regular and irregular verbs.

《語言本能－探索人類語言進化的奧秘》是加拿大–美國認知科學家史迪芬·平克於1994年出版的科普書籍，書中平克主張人類的語言並不是文化的產物，而是一種本能，就好像蜘蛛知道如何結網一樣。從語言是人類生物本能的角度，平克在書中廣泛討論了幾乎所有跟語言相關的問題或迷思，如：語言是否決定了一個民族文化的高低，我們是否需要語言才能思考，英文的不規則動詞是否是自找麻煩，為什麼我們會用弦外之音的方式說話…。針對各個問題，平克以幽默甚至像是聊天的語氣舉出許多生動的實例，論述上更保持清晰和強而有力的邏輯性。《語言本能》在1999年被科學美國人雜誌選為塑造出20世紀的100本書之一。 …