Language, Cognition, and Human Nature - Pinker, Steven (Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University)

Collects for the first time Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker is a highly eminent cognitive scientist, and these essays emphasize the importance of language and its connections to cognition, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature.