Steven Pinker
Author of How the Mind Works

We had a chat with him on Sunday, October 26, 1997. You can read a transcript here.

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How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker
(Norton, 1997, $29.95)

Steven Pinker is professor of psychology and director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of the bestselling book The Language Instinct, which won both the Language, Linguistics, and Public Service Award and the William James Book Award. His other books include Visual Cognition, Connections and Symbols, Learnability and Cognition, Lexical and Conceptual Semantics, and Language Learnability. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.