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Steven Pinker: Personal Takes

2022-04-15

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<p>In a series of academically serious but nonetheless very accessible books, the Canadian-born Harvard-based cognitive scientist Steven Pinker (1954- ) has over many years, gradually expanding the scope, explored the working of language, of our language ability and of our minds in general, and lately also our human nature and aspects of our living together in society. This paper presents brief personal summaries...

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