[bulleyashah]

I know we should not judge person and only ideas but it seems like all of Pinker's ideas are tok shallow for an academic. For example,

Also, Pinker wrote a book on how the mind works, which is very very wrong (my wife, who's a psychologist absolutely hates it). She asked me to read a small article called "That's not how the mind works" by some guy at MIT to explain.

Then I've also read his book on "How to write" and as an avid reader, I'd say we'd not have had Shakespeare if we followed his advice.

And now you're telling me that his other books are also very shallow? Does he not realize it?

[maroonblazer]

Did you read Pinker's reply to Fodor, the "some guy at MIT"?

https://stevenpinker.com/files/pinker/files/so_how_does_the_...

Seems like a solid retort, however this field is not specialty.

[solosoyokaze]

Just like all of the edge.org/Epstein people (if you’re unaware, Pinker is accused of raping a 15 year old girl and spent extensive time with Epstein), he’s all smoke and no substance. In fact the “third culture” group has proven to be amoral and completely corrupt.

https://newrepublic.com/article/154826/jeffrey-epsteins-inte...

[Maursault]

Perhaps you read an excerpt… it's a 128 page book.[1] Also, Fodor was a Rutgers guy, out of Columbia and Princeton, though this was published by MIT Press.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Doesnt-Work-That-Computational/d...