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According to the committee’s internal documents and members of the committee, Pinker proposed a sequence of courses that would teach non-science concentrators about life sciences, physical sciences, and ideas of logic and probability. Committee member Louis Menand, the Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language, suggested a one-year course based on the great works of Western literature...
...There’s not 100 percent certainty in any of the claims, but they are reasonable given what we know in the literature,” Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, whose book “The Blank Slate” provided some of the basis for Summers’ emphasis on “intrinsic aptitude” in his remarks, said in March...
...Steven Pinker (Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology...
...Pinker later noted that women are not underrepresented everywhere, but only in the hard sciences...
...Spelke did an amazing job,” said Adam N. Sternthal ’08, who is currently enrolled in Pinker’s class, Science B-62, “The Human Mind.” “[Pinker] never really responded to that ubiquitous bias that her studies pointed...