Comments on: Steven Pinker’s “The Blank Slate” http://ideonexus.com/2008/03/18/steven-pinker-the-blank-slate/ Wed, 02 May 2012 13:57:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: ideonexus.com » Blog Archive » Stephen Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought http://ideonexus.com/2008/03/18/steven-pinker-the-blank-slate/comment-page-1/#comment-2118 ideonexus.com » Blog Archive » Stephen Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought Wed, 14 May 2008 21:02:06 +0000 http://ideonexus.com/2008/03/18/steven-pinker-the-blank-slate/#comment-2118 [...] Stephen Pinker tackles in The Stuff of Thought, the third book in his trilogy on language. As with The Blank Slate, there were numerous inaccuracies in Pinker’s writing, but I was more forgiving of them as [...] [...] Stephen Pinker tackles in The Stuff of Thought, the third book in his trilogy on language. As with The Blank Slate, there were numerous inaccuracies in Pinker’s writing, but I was more forgiving of them as [...]

]]> By: ideonexus http://ideonexus.com/2008/03/18/steven-pinker-the-blank-slate/comment-page-1/#comment-1108 ideonexus Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:00:01 +0000 http://ideonexus.com/2008/03/18/steven-pinker-the-blank-slate/#comment-1108 He is a great speaker, and I'm looking forward to reading <i>The Stuff of Thought</i>. Thanks for the link. He also gave an <a href="http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200709144" rel="nofollow">interview with Science Friday</a> that was good too. He is a great speaker, and I’m looking forward to reading The Stuff of Thought. Thanks for the link. He also gave an interview with Science Friday that was good too.

]]> By: Misanthropic Scott http://ideonexus.com/2008/03/18/steven-pinker-the-blank-slate/comment-page-1/#comment-1109 Misanthropic Scott Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:19:53 +0000 http://ideonexus.com/2008/03/18/steven-pinker-the-blank-slate/#comment-1109 Here's the podcast of a lecture by Steve Pinker that he gave at the New York Academy of Sciences on 11/2/2007. It was called <a href="http://nyas.cachefly.net/thought.mp3" rel="nofollow">The Stuff of Thought</a>. He's quite amusing and a very good speaker. NYAS had this to say about it: <blockquote>Hear what Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker has to say about language and cognition, what swearing reveals about emotion, and what innuendo says about relationships. <strong>Warning: Explicit Language.</strong></blockquote> Enjoy. Here’s the podcast of a lecture by Steve Pinker that he gave at the New York Academy of Sciences on 11/2/2007. It was called The Stuff of Thought.

He’s quite amusing and a very good speaker. NYAS had this to say about it:

Hear what Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker has to say about language and cognition, what swearing reveals about emotion, and what innuendo says about relationships.
Warning: Explicit Language.

Enjoy.

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