Pinker discusses ‘blank slate’

Steven Pinker, a leading authority on language and the mind, is the next speaker in the 2001-02 Humanities Without Boundaries Lecture Series.

Pinker will give the talk “The Blank Slate” on why the concept of human nature has been so politically and morally incendiary, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 5, 1100 Grainger.

Pinker is Peter de Florez Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pinker’s research focuses on visual cognition and the psychology of language, culminating in five books and many journal articles.