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This reads as a plain account of how teaching, research, and writing share one career. It can be taken to mean that classroom work is only part of the job, and that the quieter months are just as important for producing ideas and books. It lands for anyone who imagines an academic life as either pure teaching or pure thinking.
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About Steven Pinker
Canadian cognitive psychologist and public intellectual
Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is known for his work on the mind, language, and human nature, and for presenting those subjects to a wide general audience. Pinker supports evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. He is the Johnstone Family professor of psychology at Harvard University, and his writing often returns to questions about how people think, speak, and understand the world.
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Books by Steven Pinker
The Language Instinct
2007
The Blank Slate
2002
How the Mind Works
1999
Enlightenment now
2018
Rationality
2021