Steven Pinker - Cómo funciona la mente

STEVEN PINKER (Montreal, Canadá, 18 de septiembre de 1954). Catedrático y de psicología y director del Centro para la Neurociencia Cognitiva en el Instituto de tecnología de Massachussets. Se formó en McGill y Harvard, y enseñó en Harvard y Stanford antes de trasladarse al MIT. Ha ganado numerosos premios por su investigación, docencia y publicaciones, entre las que se destaca El instinto del lenguaje. Es colaborador habitual de Time, The New Republic y New York Times.

Obras: El instinto del lenguaje: cómo crea el lenguaje la mente, 1994, Cómo funciona la mente. Destino (2001, 2007), La tabla rasa. La negación moderna de la naturaleza humana. Paidós Ibérica (2003), El mundo de las palabras. Paidos (2007), Los ángeles que llevamos dentro. El declive de la violencia y sus implicaciones. Paidós, 2011. En defensa de la Ilustración: Por la razón, la ciencia, el humanismo y el progreso. Paidós, 2018.

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