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In Depth with Steven Pinker



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Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker talked about his life and career. He responded to telephone calls and electronic mail.  Videos were shown of Steven Pinker in his house in Boston, talking about his writing habits and showing the books in his library. Many photographs he had taken were also shown. Steven Pinker currently teaches at Harvard University where he holds the positions of Harvard College Professor and the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and Slate, and is the author of seven books, including The Language Instinct (1994), How the Mind Works (1997), Words and Rules (1999), The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002), and his latest, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (2007).

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20 thoughts on “In Depth with Steven Pinker
  1. If god's true name is Yahweh, then we're dealing here with an ancient Summerian Wargod… that could explain the lot of the aggression in the Old Testament… 

  2. WHEN * WAS * THIS * INTERVIEW * RECORDED !!!!!?????

    I'm totally baffled that this basic piece of information isn't always the first thing told.
    Something is rotten in the site of YouTube.

  3. Empiricism (Pinker) portray man as a robot or zombie with no central processing unit (a living mind).

    Empiricism portrays man as a robot or zombie with no central processing unit (mind).
    Such a man cannot perceive, feel or do anything. To do so requires
    the universal transcendentalism of Emerson or Leibniz. Even Kant
    came up short with his personal transcendentalism, which make no
    provision for a deity or even for a full-blown moral agent.

    Empiricism is the passive model of mindless anglo-american philosophy,
    foisted on us (evewn on Kant) by Hume and eagerly adopted by science ,
    neuroscience, psychology, and by today's philosophers of "mind" such as Dennett
    and Searle, even sadly by Pinker, who at one time (in the Blank Slate)
    once realized that the mind is an active entity, but soon dropped that provision.

    The list is endless, and leaves anglo-american philosophy with a man
    who cannot think, do, feel or perceive, continued to this day by means of
    groupthink copycat academics. The problem can be solved by adopting a
    transcendental philosophy such as that of Leibniz (starting with his Monadology)
    and Emerson, in which mind (his CPU) enables a man to perceive, think, feel and do.

    see my website https://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough
    —- Without governance the stars will fall.
    ——Without a single governor they will collide.

  4. Reconstruction is a problem only if you wish, for some reason to preserve these languages. It would be foolish to assume they are all valuable, especially considering that nearly all of the few thousand languages fall into three of about twenty possible categories. So the good news is that its not necessarily a big loss, the bad news is less formal variety, or is that good news as well. Considering that the primary function of language is communication, the fewer and simpler the better. As far as artistic or esthetic value and self expression the most popular are not necessarily the best. Just compare the literary value and history of Chinese and Spanish with that of English, German, French, Russian or even Japanese or Italian. Then compare the current numbers of their speakers.

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