We’ll talk this hour about how we can reclaim the art of prose with Steven Pinker, author of The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.
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Language as a Window into Human Nature
What is the nature of the mind? According to Harvard Professor Steven Pinker, language reflects the “distinctively human model of reality, which differs in major ways form the objective understanding of reality eked out by our best science and logic.” Pinker will join us for the hour to discuss his research and his new book “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature” (Viking, 2007).
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