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Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and Slate, and is the author of seven books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, and The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature. Mr. Pinker was named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” in 2004.

November 29Does science make belief in God obsolete?
John Templeton Foundation
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July 2The Evolutionary Psychology of Religion
Presentation, Freedom From Religion Foundation, October 2004
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May 11The Moral Instinct
The New York Times
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