Frases de Steven Pinker

Steven Arthur Pinker es un psicólogo experimental, científico cognitivo, lingüista y escritor canadiense. Es profesor en el Harvard College y titular del “Johnstone Family Professorship” en el Departamento de Psicología de la Universidad de Harvard. Es conocido por su defensa enérgica y de gran alcance de la psicología evolucionista y de la teoría computacional de la mente. Sus especializaciones académicas son la percepción y el desarrollo del lenguaje en niños; es más conocido por argumentar que el lenguaje es un "instinto" o una adaptación biológica modelada por la selección natural. Sus cuatro libros dirigidos al público en general —El instinto del lenguaje, Cómo funciona la mente, Palabras y reglas y La tabla rasa— han ganado numerosos premios y le han dotado de renombre. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. septiembre 1954   •   Otros nombres Стывен Пінкер, استیون پینکر, Ստիվեն Փինկեր, സ്റ്റീവൻ പിങ്കർ, स्टीव्हन पिंकर
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“Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.”

Steven Pinker libro The Blank Slate

p. 485 http://books.google.com/books?id=ePNi4ZqYdVQC&q=%22humans+are+interchangeable%22
The Blank Slate (2002)
Fuente: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Contexto: [E]quality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group. … If we recognize this principle, no one has to spin myths about the indistinguishability of the sexes to justify equality.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it.”

Steven Pinker libro Words and Rules

Fuente: Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

“Disgust is intuitive microbiology”

Steven Pinker libro The Blank Slate

Fuente: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“the mind is a neural computer”

Steven Pinker libro How the Mind Works

Fuente: How the Mind Works

“Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.”

Steven Pinker libro How the Mind Works

Fuente: How the Mind Works (1997), p. 44

“As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.”

Steven Pinker libro Words and Rules

Fuente: Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (Basic Books, 1999), p. 84

“The three laws of behavioral genetics may be the most important discoveries in the history of psychology. Yet most psychologists have not come to grips with them, and most intellectuals do not understand them …. Here are the three laws:”

Steven Pinker libro The Blank Slate

The First Law. All human behavioral traits are heritable.
The Second Law. The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of genes.
The Third Law. A substantial portion of the variation in complex human behavioral traits is not accounted for by the effects of genes or families.
Kindle locations 8005, 8010.
The Blank Slate (2002)

“I predict it will come to be seen as a turning point in the history of psychology.”

Introduction to The Nurture Assumption, 1998. http://books.google.com/books?id=-uKBJRMJBjcC&pg=PR21&dq=%22turning+point+in+the+history+of+psychology%22&hl=en&ei=RPFBTID7HMP58AbP67DpDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=%22turning%20point%20in%20the%20history%20of%20psychology%22&f=false