In his latest book, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker looks at language and what it tells us about the way we think. Language, he argues, reflects the very nature of our brain structure.

Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, has been studying language for more than four decades, yet he’s not particularly interested in language per se.

Devoted readers of the estimable Montreal-born psychologist Steven Pinker know he can get carried away with his own ...

When it comes to writing about writing, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker is a triple threat: a researcher of the mind, an expert on the workings of language, and a wordsmith in his own right. In The ...

The everyday meaning of “common knowledge” is knowledge held in common, often as an open secret. For example, it is common knowledge that publishers like books that seek, via quirky examples, to ...

Charles Murray interprets anecdotes of “terminal lucidity,” unresponsive neurological patients coming to life for a final goodbye, as evidence for an immaterial soul (“Can Science Reckon With the ...