{"id":3612,"date":"2009-10-30T09:24:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T14:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2009-10-30T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T14:26:08","slug":"steven-pinker-the-stuff-of-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/3612","title":{"rendered":"Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=628436\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/blankslate.jpg\" alt=\"Blank Slate\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nMonday, November 2, 2009<br \/>\nYoung Auditorium, 7 pm<\/p>\n<p>Evolutional psychologist Steven Pinker is one of the world&#8217;s leading cognitive scientists. The Times (London) calls him &#8220;academia&#8217;s rock star,&#8221; with his wild hair and controversial ideas. Currently, Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.\u00a0 Pinker&#8217;s research demonstrates that the human mind is not a blank slate at birth, and that some elements of language are also pre-programmed.<\/p>\n<p>Andersen Library has\u00a0a number\u00a0of Pinker&#8217;s books (including several books with chapters by him). So take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/search?searchArg=steven+pinker&amp;searchCode=GKEY%5E*&amp;limitTo=none&amp;recCount=50&amp;searchType=1&amp;page.search.search.button=Search\">HALCAT<\/a> to see a list of his books.<\/p>\n<p>Pinker&#8217;s book,\u00a0<em>The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature,<\/em> is available at many other UW Libraries and may be requested through <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/selectDatabase\">Universal Borrowing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.asp?profile=web&amp;defaultdb=psyh\">PsycInfo<\/a> (EBSCOhost) is a great place to search for articles by Pinker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature Monday, November 2, 2009 Young Auditorium, 7 pm Evolutional psychologist Steven Pinker is one of the world&#8217;s leading cognitive scientists. The Times (London) calls him &#8220;academia&#8217;s rock star,&#8221; with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/3612\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2373,2372,242],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-connection","tag-brain-research","tag-cognitive-science","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3628,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}