Publications

2005

Pinker, S. (2005). College Makeover: The matrix, revisited. Slate. (Original work published 2005)

What should students be studying in college? No one seems to agree anymore. Slate has taken the occasion to ask an array of prominent academics to tackle the question at the heart of this debate. Click here to read more from our symposium on reinventing college, and here to read more from Slate’s "College Week."

Pinker, S. (2005). Morality arises from shared perspectives, not faith. The Independent.

Pinker, S. (2005). PSYCHOANALYSIS Q-and-A: Steven Pinker. The Harvard Crimson. (Original work published 2005)

2004

Pinker, S. (2004). Clarifying the logical problem of language acquisition. Journal of Child Language, 31, 949-953.

Pinker, S. (2004). Why nature & nurture won’t go away. Dædalus.

Pinker, S. (2004). Q & A Steven Pinker. Current Biology.

Pinker, S. (2004). The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

"A provocative and thoroughly enjoyable [collection] from start to finish."—Publishers Weekly

Here is the best and newest on science and nature: the psychology of suicide terrorism, desperate measures in surgery, the weird world of octopuses, Sex Week at Yale, the linguistics of click languages, the worst news about cloning, and much more. Chapters by Scott Atran, Ronald Bailey, Philip M. Boffey, Austin Bunn, Jennet Conant, Daniel C. Dennett, Gregg Easterbrook, Garrett G. Fagan, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Atul Gawande, Horace Freeland Judson, Geoffrey Nunberg, Mike O'Connor, Peggy Orenstein, Virginia Postrel, Jonathan Rauch, Chet Raymo, Ron Rosenbaum, Steve Sailer, Robert Sapolsky, Eric Scigliano, Meredith F. Small, Max Tegmark, and Nicholas Wade.

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See also: Books

Pinker, S. (2004). The Evolutionary Psychology of Religion. In Freedom from Religion Foundation. Presented at the Annual Meeting. (Original work published 2004)

Pinker, S. (2004). How to Think About the Mind. Newsweek.

Pinker, S., & Goldstein, R. (2004). The Seed Salon: Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein. Seed, 44-45.