Steven Pinker is a global leader in cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, recognized both for his academic achievements and his popular science communication. Named by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, Pinker is a Harvard professor committed to demystifying the science behind language, thought, and human action for audiences worldwide, translating decades of research into arguments a general reader can actually follow.
Born in Montreal, Canada, Steven Pinker earned a degree in Experimental Psychology at McGill and a PhD at Harvard. He has taught at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, and is currently Professor of Psychology at Harvard. Pinker is the author of thirteen books, including “The Language Instinct”, “How the Mind Works”, “The Blank Slate”, “The Better Angels of Our Nature”, “Enlightenment Now”, and “Rationality”, many of which have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and translated into multiple languages. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a regular contributor to The New York Times and other major outlets, where he brings the same evidence-based style that runs through his books.
Steven Pinker’s talks are known for their clarity, intellectual rigor, and ability to challenge conventional wisdom. With a provocative and accessible style, Pinker covers topics such as language, the mind, rationality, human progress, and behavioral science. His approach encourages critical thinking and reflection for both general and expert audiences, the same balance he strikes in his writing between rigorous data and a genuinely readable argument.
Presents evidence that we live in the most peaceful era and analyzes how we can continue advancing toward less violent societies, drawing on the historical data he first laid out in the book that inspired the talk.
Introduces key concepts from his book “Rationality”, showing how logic and critical thinking can improve our lives and promote social progress, and why rational thought is harder to sustain, individually and collectively, than it looks.
Explores how language reveals the foundations of the human mind and our capacity for communication, creativity, and understanding the world, the same territory he first mapped out decades ago in The Language Instinct.
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