Steven Pinker

Rationality; cognitive-science popularizer.

Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Pinker studies language, mind, and human nature. His books — including 'The Better Angels of Our Nature' and 'Rationality' — marshal large datasets to argue that reason and Enlightenment values underpin civilisational improvement. He is a prominent advocate for probabilistic thinking and the debunking of cognitive bias narratives that he regards as overstated.