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Like those of the greatest members of academia, Pinker??s revolution is a revolution of knowledge, yet like Jagger’s musical revolution, his is also one that reaches the masses. Pinker??s books question psychology’s conventional wisdom that environment rather than genes determines one’s character. Yet in defending “nature, not nurture,” Pinker??s language remains uncannily lucid and accessible to the “lay public” that does not call psychology its profession...
...anything, Gillis said Pinker??s speech affirmed his faith...
...sure if Pinker??s ever been religious, but there were a lot of holes in his reasoning,” he said, specifically mentioning Pinker??s failure to address “books upon books of empirical evidence in support of particular religions...
...Pinker??s analysis of language, emotions and visual perception has made headway in his field and had influence beyond the classroom. The professor jokes that he first realized his work was reaching people beyond just psychologists went The New York Times put his new book, How the Mind Works, on a list of “Worst Books to Take to the Beach.” The list’s author, Pinker says, found the book’s biological focus disturbing...
...Pinker??s most recent book, The Blank Slate, was published in 1992. “Part of the reason I wrote The Blank Slate was to address people like this woman who thought that the very premise that the mind is a function of the brain is upsetting,” Pinker says. The book is neither textbook nor scientific proposal, study or paper. In good Pinker fashion, it’s aimed at scientific laymen...