nd family responsibilities. But it is equally true that some young conservatives become more liberal as they ° My dear friend and teaching colleague Steven Pinker believes that parental influence may be overvalued [CITE]. I’m certain that it varies among individuals and families. 9 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017096 ---

of expression that lay outside the presumption of discussability and are, or should be, subject to suppression, censorship or tabooization. Professor Pinker presented some evolutionary and psychological arguments for the existence and utility of some taboos, while questioning many of the taboos that curre

g the emergence of natural language in communities of software agents), Jerome Feldman (who devised building blocks for a Neural Theory of Language), Stephen Pinker (who thought much about the relationship between language and mental representation), Stephen Kosslyn (an expert on the psychology of mental represen

blocks for a Neural Theory of Language), Stephen Pinker (who thought much about the relationship between

ion to understanding the world. [Thanks to Steven Pinker for suggesting this year's EDGE Question and to D

it is a rigorous conceptual tool that may be summed up succinctly (or "in a phrase") but has broad application to understanding the world. [Thanks to Steven Pinker for suggesting this year's EDGE Question and to Daniel Kahneman for advice on its presentation.] In Memoriam DENIS DUTTON 1944-2010 Last year, the 20

aniel Dennett, Jonathan Figdor, Nick Haslam, Omar Sultan Haque, Lilan Hauser, Bryce Huebner, Ann Jon, Gordon Kraft-Todd, Errol Morris, Philip Pettit, Steven Pinker, Lisa Pytka, Richard Sosis, Fritz Tsao, Jack Van Honk, and Richard Wrangham. My agent, John Brockman...not only a great agent but a wonderful human

of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur. New Haven, Yale University Press. McCullough, M.E. (2008). Beyond Revenge. John Wiley & Sons. Pinker, S. (2011) The Better Angels of Our Nature. New York, Viking Press Wrangham, R.W., & Peterson, D. (1996). Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Hum

her Daniel Dennett, and bestselling author Steven Pinker, have a very different view. Serious, searching a

before that, to own human beings as slaves. And before that, to burn people to death for being infidels, to the applause and amusement of the public. Steven Pinker’s book The Better Angels of our Nature contains accounts of horrendous evils that were normal in historical civilizations. Yet even they 86 HOUSE_OVE

before that, to own human beings as slaves. And before that, to burn people to death for being infidels, to the applause and amusement of the public. Steven Pinker’s book The Better Angels of our Nature contains accounts of horrendous evils that were normal in historical civilizations. Yet even they 86 HOUSE_OVE

her Daniel Dennett, and bestselling author Steven Pinker, have a very different view. Serious, searching a

arendon, 1993. 13. Algeo, John, and Adele S. Algeo. Fifty Years among the New Words: a Dictionary of Neologisms, 1941-1991. Cambridge UK, 1991. 14. Pinker, Steven. Words and Rules. New York: Basic, 1999, 15. Kroch, Anthony S. "Reflexes of Grammar in Patterns of Language Change." Language Variation and

Presser Aiden,° Adrian Veres,’ Matthew K. Gray,* The Google Books Team,® Joseph P. Pickett,’ Dale Hoiberg,’” Dan Clancy,® Peter Norvig,® Jon Orwant,® Steven Pinker,’ Martin A. Nowak,)!)” Erez Lieberman Aiden! !*!*!4:15-6#+ 'Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. “Insti

.missioninn.com 5:00PM OPENING in the St. Francis of Assisi Chapel at The Mission Inn RICHARD SAUL WURMAN YO-YO MA and will.i.am C.K. WILLIAMS AND STEVEN PINKER 7:20PM WINE and hors d'oeuvres in the Atrio adjacent to the Chapel 8:30PM DINNER in the Galleria at The Mission Inn WED19 Esri 380 New York Stree

81-82, when he was an assistant professor at Stanford, and in 1995-96,when he spent a sabbatical year at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Pinker is an experimental psychologist who is interested in all aspects of language and mind. Much of his initial research was in visual cognition, the abil

Global Language. (2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 7 also Shahar Ronen, Bruno Goncalves, Kevin Z. Hu, Alessandro Vespignani, Steven Pinker, and César A. Hidalgo. 2014. “Links That Speak: The Global Language Network and Its Association with Global Fame.” Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111 (52) (D

alves, Kevin Z. Hu, Alessandro Vespignani, Steven Pinker, and César A. Hidalgo. 2014. “Links That Speak: T

ogist Svante Paabo. 7. lan McEwan and physicist/writer Jana Levin or Nobel Laureate Biologist Elizabeth Blackburn. 8. Barack Obama and psychologist Steven Pinker. 9. Director Alex Garland and IT computer scientist Eric Horvitz/Larry Page 10. Actor Bill Pullman and Nobel Prizewinning economist/psychologist Da

ackburn. 8. Barack Obama and psychologist Steven Pinker. 9. Director Alex Garland and IT computer scient

Blackburn. Barack Obama and psychologist Steven Pinker. Director Alex Garland and IT computer scientist

er Herzog, Cormac McCarthy, with biologist Svante Paabo. Jan McEwan and Nobel Laureate Biologist Elizabeth Blackburn. Barack Obama and psychologist Steven Pinker. Director Alex Garland and IT computer scientist Eric Horvitz/Larry Page 0. Actor Bill Pullman and Nobel Prizewinning economist/psychologist Danny

er Herzog, Cormac McCarthy, with biologist Svante Paabo. Jan McEwan and Nobel Laureate Biologist Elizabeth Blackburn. Barack Obama and psychologist Steven Pinker. Director Alex Garland and IT computer scientist Eric Horvitz/Larry Page 0. Actor Bill Pullman, Magician Penn Jillette and Nobel Prizewinning econ

Blackburn. Barack Obama and psychologist Steven Pinker. Director Alex Garland and IT computer scientist

uman spirit. The only requirement is that some simple and non-obvious idea explain some diverse and complicated set of phenomena. ‘obs >> [Thanks to Steven Pinker for suggesting this year's EDGE Question and to Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, and George Dyson for their ongoing advice and support. | Sebs DD me cn

ated set of phenomena. ‘obs >> [Thanks to Steven Pinker for suggesting this year's EDGE Question and to S

lict and violence that the Harvard scholar Steven Pinker has documented. After slavery and imprisonment,

al and political life. This helps explain the dramatic long-term decline in the rates of most kinds of conflict and violence that the Harvard scholar Steven Pinker has documented. After slavery and imprisonment, the most degrading condition a human being can experience is poverty. In 2000, UN Secretary-General

ho are important to you is at least as dangerous to your health as a pack-a-day cigarette habit, hypertension or obesity.” In addition to her books, Pinker writes Mind and Matter, a column for the Wall Street Journal illuminating surprising advances in human behavior research. Pinker’s numerous writings

Prisoner's Dilemma has famously been used as an explanation for the evolution of cooperation among non-kin (Axelrod & Hamilton, 1981; Dawkins, 2006; Pinker, 2003; Trivers, 1971). In this section, we show how the same basic model can be used to explain many of the quirky features of our pro-social prefer-

Experimental Psychology 79, 164 (1969). [28] S. Pinker, NY: Norton (1997). 15 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026535