An Evening with Steven Pinker
| Ticket Information VIP Meet & Greet: $156 Regular Price: $54 - $105 Group of 10+: 10% Discount Ticket prices include all fees. Run Time: 1 Hours, 30 Minutes Reserved Seating |
Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist and best-selling author and one of the most influential minds of our time, takes the stage across the U.S. & Canada this September.
In this live event, he will go beyond the headlines to unpack the arguments and intellectual foundations behind his most influential work. Audiences can expect a wide-ranging exploration of language, rationality, human progress, and the ideas behind his most influential books, including The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. He’ll also offer a look at themes from his latest work, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows, and take audience questions.
In this live event, he will go beyond the headlines to unpack the arguments and intellectual foundations behind his most influential work. Audiences can expect a wide-ranging exploration of language, rationality, human progress, and the ideas behind his most influential books, including The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. He’ll also offer a look at themes from his latest work, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows, and take audience questions.
About Steven Pinker:
Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. He grew up in Montreal and earned his BA from McGill and his PhD from Harvard. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. He has won numerous prizes for his research, his teaching, and his books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Sense of Style, and Enlightenment Now. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Humanist of the Year awardee, recipient of nine honorary doctorates, and one of Foreign Policy's "World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals" as well as Time's "100 Most Influential People in the World Today." He was Chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and writes frequently for the New York Times and other publications.