A Harvard College Professor and the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist, and author interested in all aspects of language and the mind. He is the author of best-sellers such as The Blank Slate and How the Mind Works. His most recent book is The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“A lucid explanation of natural selection and a model of elegant science writing.”
Enemies, A Love Story
“A novel about a Holocaust survivor with three wives. Every scene is filled with insight about human nature.”
The Strategy of Conflict
“A humane Dr. Strangelove explains why it pays to be an irrational hothead.”
The Mind-Body Problem
“A philosopher grapples with this problem in her doctoral thesis and in her life. I liked it so much, I married the novelist.”
