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Pinker convincingly demonstrates that there has been a dramatic decline in violence, and he is persuasive about the causes of that decline.

Jerry Fodor and Steven Pinker suggest that this fact may be a result of how our minds work. .

No doubt there will also be roars of approval for Mr Pinker's new book, "The Stuff of Thought" .

Linguist Steven Pinker questions the very nature of our thoughts -- the way we use words, how we learn, and how we relate to others.

In each of his nine chapters Mr Pinker looks at a different aspect of how we put our thoughts and feelings into words.

A few months ago, Steven Pinker of Harvard asked a smart question: What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?

Professor Pinker had a choice of ongoing conflicts while he worked on his book: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Sudan.

Pinker is an optimist, but he knows that there is no guarantee that the trends he has documented will continue.

An evolutionary psychologist who works on cognition and language at Harvard, Professor Pinker writes like a modern Whig.

Pinker assumes that many of his readers will be skeptical of this claim, so he spends six substantial chapters documenting it.

The empowerment of women does, Pinker argues, exercise a pacifying influence, and the world would be more peaceful if women were in charge.

In seeking answers to these questions Pinker draws on recent research in history, psychology, cognitive science, economics and sociology.

Although humanity can "easily backslide into war, " Pinker concludes, "the forces of modernity are making things better and better. "

Several years ago, as a Harvard faculty member, I audited an introductory psychology course taught by Steven Pinker.

For reason does, Pinker holds, point to a particular kind of morality.

PINKER: Regarding bias: as I mentioned at the outset, I don't doubt that bias exists.

So don't the trends that Pinker chronicles prove that our nature is more the product of our culture than our biology?

Harvard University brain expert Steven Pinker is another author of the study. A report on the work appeared in the journal Science.

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature By Steven Pinker.

Pinker begins with studies of the causes of death in different eras and peoples.

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Pinker calls this the "pacification process. "

The pinker pars flaccid contains a thin network of blood vessels that spread out and supply the pars tense.

In 800 information-packed pages, Pinker also discusses a host of more specific issues.

Mr. Pinker's atheism shows that thinking in these cosmic terms doesn't lead you inexorably to God.

Time magazine named Pinker one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2004.

Dr Pinker's point is that, like real cheesecake, music sates an appetite that nature cannot.

Pinker now considers this "the worst thing I have ever done. "

For example, I had this experience recently with Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works.

Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University