Steven Pinker

Quelles sont les structures universelles du langage? Quelles sont ses bases biologiques? Que savent les bébés en naissant? Existe-t-il des gènes de la grammaire? Parviendra-t-on à recréer le langage humain par l'intelligence artificielle? Quelle différence entre les humains et les animaux? Que nous apprennent les …

L’idée que chacun de nous se fait de la nature humaine affecte toute notre vie, de la manière dont nous élevons nos enfants à nos positions politiques. Les sciences permettent aujourd’hui de mieux la comprendre, de mieux cerner les structures innées qui régissent nos pensées et nos sentiments. Et pourtant, beaucoup …

How the Mind Works is a 1997 book by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. The book attempts to explain some of the human mind's poorly understood functions and quirks in evolutionary terms. Drawing heavily on the paradigm of evolutionary psychology articulated by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, Pinker …

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 …

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

“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 …

An Amazon Best Book of March 2018: Given the 24-hour news cycle to which we have grown accustomed, it’s difficult to navigate life and think that everything is peachy. But Steven Pinker has set out, first in The Better Angels of Our Nature, and now in Enlightenment Now, to illustrate that there has never been a better …