Publications

2005

Pinker, S., & Spelke, E. (2005). A Conversation with Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke. In The Science of Gender and Science. Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative.

The research on mind, brain, and behavior that may be relevant to gender disparities in the sciences, including the studies of bias, discrimination and innate and acquired difference between the sexes.

Collins, F., Pinker, S., Behe, M., & Mohler, A. (2005). Can you Believe in God and Evolution?. Time.

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

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