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Steven Pinker

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Steven Arthur Pinker (born 18 September 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author.

Involvement with effective altruism

Pinker has described effective altruism as “one of the great new ideas of the 21st century”,[1] and has written that “movements that aim to spread scientific sophistication such as […] effective altruism have a vast potential to enhance human welfare.”[2] He has also collaborated with Harvard Effective Altruism and has expressed support for Giving What We Can.[3]

Further reading

Timalsina, Tarun (2021) Effective altruism: An interview with Steven Pinker, Harvard Political Review.

External links

Steven Pinker. Official website.

  1. ^

    MacAskill, William (2015) Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference, New York: Random House.

  2. ^

    Pinker, Steven (2018) Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, New York: Viking, ch. 22.

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The Real­ity Mind­set and the Mythol­ogy Mindset

James Aitchison10 Apr 2023 15:18 UTC
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Cog­ni­tive sci­ence and failed AI fore­casts

Eleni_A18 Nov 2022 14:25 UTC
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[Notes] Steven Pinker and Yu­val Noah Harari in conversation

Ben9 Feb 2020 12:49 UTC
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Book Re­view: En­light­en­ment Now, by Steven Pinker

Aaron Gertler21 Oct 2018 23:12 UTC
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Meetup : Har­vard Col­lege Effec­tive Altru­ism pre­sents: Steven Pinker on “The Past, Pre­sent, and Fu­ture of Violence”

Angie_Jo3 Nov 2014 20:07 UTC
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