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The Cognitive Revolution at Fifty Plus or Minus One

A Conversation with Jerome Bruner, Susan Carey, Noam Chomsky, and George Miller (introduced by Steven Pinker) to honor exhibit in William James Hall at Harvard on the cognitive revolution. Around fifty years ago, Harvard was the site of a revolution— the Cognitive Revolution. By the middle of the...

"The Sense of Style: The Thinking Persons' Guide to Writing in the 21st Century"

Steven Pinker, an experimental psychologist at Harvard, cognitive scientist and linguist, has been named as one of the world’s most influential intellectuals, and has written ten books including The Language Instinct and The Better Angels of our Nature. In The Sense of Style, he asks why so much...