| Steven Pinker  Born: 18-Sep-1954
Birthplace: Montreal, Canada
Gender: Male
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Linguist, Psychologist, Philosopher Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: The Language Instinct Father: Harry Pinker
Mother: Roslyn
Wife: Nancy Etcoff (m. 1980, div. 1992)
Wife: Ilavenil Subbiah (cognitive psychologist, m. 1995, div. )
Girlfriend: Rebecca Goldstein (philosophy professor at Trinity College)
University: BA Psychology, McGill University (1976)
University: PhD, Experimental Psychology, Harvard University (1979)
Professor: Assistant Professor, Harvard University (one year)
Professor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1982-2003)
Professor: Psychology, Harvard University (2003-)
American Council on Science and Health Scientific Advisor
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Fellow
Secular Coalition for America Advisory Board
The Third Culture
Humanist of the Year 2006
Official Website:
http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/
Author of books:
Language Learnability and Language Development (1984)
Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (1991)
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (1994)
How the Mind Works (1997)
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (1999)
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002)
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