#3 – Steven Pinker

17 Oct 2018

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #3:

1. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
2. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
3. The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
4. A History of Force: Exploring the Worldwide Movement Against Habits of Coercion, Bloodshed, and Mayhem by James L. Payne
5. One Two Three… Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow
6. Time-Life Science by Various authors
7. Reflections on Language by Noam Chomsky
8. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
9. Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
10. The Psychology of Communication by George Armitage Miller

Steven Pinker (@sapinker) is a science author, cognitive psychologist and psycholinguist. He is a professor at Harvard and before that was a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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