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STEVEN PINKER to speak with PHRJ!
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Please join the MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice to hear Professor of
Psychology,
*** STEVEN PINKER ***
speaking on
THE BLANK SLATE: THE MODERN DENIAL OF HUMAN NATURE
~date: Tuesday, April 15
~time: 6:00-7:30pm
~location: 4-237 (77 Massachusetts Ave)
Steven Pinker, a native of Montreal, received his BA from McGill University in
1976 and his PhD in psychology from Harvard in 1979. After serving on the
faculties of Harvard and Stanford Universities a year each, he moved to MIT in
1982, where he is currently Professor of Psychology in the Department of Brain
and Cognitive Sciences and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow. His research on visual
cognition and on the psychology of language has received the Troland Award from
the National Academy of Sciences and two prizes from the American Psychological
Association. He has also received awards for his graduate teaching at MIT and
for his undergraduate teaching at MIT, two prizes for general achievement, an
honorary doctorate, and five awards for his popular science books The Language
Instinct and How the Mind Works. Professor Pinker is a fellow of several
scholarly societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and
the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is an associate
editor of Cognition and serves on many professional panels, including the Usage
Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary and the Scientific Advisory Panel of
an 8-hour NOVA television series on evolution. Professor Pinker also writes
frequently in the popular press, including The New York Times, Time, Slate, and
The New Yorker. His fifth book, Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language,
was published in October.
For further information, contact us at phrj@mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/phrj
