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...Steven Pinker is in your head. Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology and teacher of core du jour Science B-62, “The Human Mind,” Pinker appeals to people who aren’t budding neurosurgeons. Pinker’s PhD student and Human Mind Teaching Fellow Ned Sahin describes the class as aimed at students “who maybe don’t care about past tense verbs or the synapse between two neurons, who maybe don’t care about one facet of psychology, but who do want a user?...
...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...
...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...
...Psychology Emeritus B. F. Skinner, who is quite dead. In life, he was a faculty member of this fine institution, and it was probably not his intention that students here would have to pay publishing fees for copies of his works. And Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker has managed to obtain a special waiver of royalties and publishers’ fees for the reprints of his own book used in the sourcebook for his class, this agreement only holds because he is the instructor and it doesn’t give him power over fees for other classes...
...addition to his outside research, Pinker says sometimes inspiration flows from working with Harvard students. “At MIT, students are more likely to punch a clock, whereas at Harvard, students are more likely to be collaborators.” Although he is excited about his move down the river, Pinker argues that the Harvard bureaucrats often hinder his research efforts...