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Despite the complications associated with popularizing science, Pinker said that he ultimately found writing accessible books about cognitive science satisfying on both a professional and personal level...
author, she was not as active a researcher as usual. And Pinker said that in his pre-book days, he ran a lab with half a dozen graduate students, and that now he just has one or two at a time...
...Pinker] chose to be a public intellectual as his day job, and thus, we partly lost a really good mind in cognitive science,” Hauser said. “But we gained a spokesperson who can expose the excitement of the field...
...Pinker said that he had received criticism from scholars who accused him of ignoring evidence that did not support his views, although he said that it would be impossible to come to a conclusion if he represented everyone’s views...
...while Pinker strives to provide a straightforward answer in clear prose, Lewenstein said that even simplification is a complicated business...