Pinker

In the Cartesian dispensation, of which Pinker is an apparent heir, you cannot deduce values from facts.

May 22nd, 2009 m_francis 2009

Pinker is still on the wrong trail of Hayek scholarship if he thinks that there is something which "makes" order arise out of individual choices, or that there is anything to "understand" about the process.

Comments on Hayek, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The furthest thing from a vulgar Darwinian --- he rejects the term "genetic determinism" as a social-constructionist slur --- Pinker is nonetheless a vigorous opponent of what he contends is the ideologically inspired insistence (often from the academic left, he maintains, and typically from those in the humanities rather than the hard sciences) that we are exclusively products of cultural influences, rather than, as he puts it, "an evolutionarily shaped human nature."

Boing Boing 2009

There was a mailbox out front with the name Pinker lettered on it.

Nutrition 2010

Pinker is a jerk, he's doing it for the money, he's an establishment tool, he's an "arrogant, ideological sophist".

Danger, Will Robinson!! 2007

It's signed as follows: Steven Pinker is professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.

2007 July - Telic Thoughts 2007

Pinker is a jerk, he's doing it for the money, he's an establishment tool, he's an "arrogant, ideological sophist".

Danger, Will Robinson!! 2007

It's signed as follows: Steven Pinker is professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.

Danger, Will Robinson!! 2007

Makes one wonder whether Pinker is really that clueless about the science, or if he is being intentionally deceptive.

Artificial Life, Constraint by Design 2005

Pinker is just trying to bait ID'ers into coming out and saying "Yes, we admit it, we're all creationists, and we're secretly trying to claim that a perfect God created everything perfectly."

Artificial Life, Constraint by Design 2005