Steven Pinker vs. Noam Chomsky

Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers

Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker

1954 – present

Psychology
United States
atheism

Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.

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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

1928 – present

Philosophy
United States
atheism

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Connections

Noam Chomsky was influenced by Steven Pinker
Overlapped from 1954

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