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...face of some of the most basic and established beliefs in the fields of psychology and linguistics. The author even targets some of the biggest names in these fields—many of them right here at Harvard—like MIT Professor Noam Chomsky, Harvard Psychology professors Steven Pinker and Marc D. Hauser, and rising Linguistics star Andrew I. Nevins. Nevins, an assistant professor in the Linguistics department has come out most strongly against Everett’s arguments, co-writing a paper refuting the validity of almost every point Everett makes about the extraordinary nature of the Pirah?...
Rabbi David J. Wolpe and psychology professor Steven Pinker debated the existence of God and the benefits of faith at Harvard Hillel last night. The discussion, which focused on questions of morality and whether altruism can exist without faith, was cosponsored by Hillel and the Harvard Book Store to promote Wolpe’s new book, “Why Faith Matters.” Wolpe—named the number one pulpit rabbi in America by Newsweek earlier this year—and Pinker—an avowed atheist and best-selling author of books on the human mind...
...many twenty-year-olds have the chance—or the gall—to lei Karl Rove or to ask Steven Pinker about his favorite expletives. Enter Derek M. Flanzraich ’10: a boisterious, irreverent, and, above all, determined Harvard student who has led a movement on campus by launching “On Harvard Time,” a fake news program that puts a Crimson spin on a genre popularized by Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart...
...would say marketable skills, but this is Harvard, where everyone’s roommate is secretly a world-class violinist. Besides, celebrity entails something else besides excellence. Professor Steven Pinker may be eminent in his field, but he would be just another distinguished professor without his distinctive hairstyle...
...nothing else, the numbers should tell you that there is excellent teaching at Harvard,” said Student Affairs Committee chair Jon T. Staff V ’10. The students and the teachers they nominated were invited to the banquet in Dunster House, where psychology professor Stephen Pinker gave the keynote address. The winners do not receive cash prizes; instead, the money that was given for the award pays for the dinner. The commonality among the candidates was not just brilliance, Staff said in his introductory remarks. “It was the teachers who transformed students...