Good talk on Thursday afternoon - Steven Pinker

From: W.N. Martin (martin@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 27 2002 - 09:32:24 EST

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      The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the
      Ghost in the Machine

      Speaker
                      Steven Pinker, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT.
      Sponsor
                      Forum for Contemporary Thought
      Category
                      Speakers: Interdisciplinary
      Location
                      Wilson Hall, Room 402
                      Charlottesville, VA
      Date and Time
                      Thursday February 28, 2002
                      3:30pm-5:00pm
      Description
                      A talk by Steven Pinker, professor of Psychology in the
                      Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a MacVicar
                      Faculty Fellow at MIT. His research on visual cognition and
    the
                      psychology of language has received the Troland Award from
                      the National Academy of Sciences and two prizes from the
                      American Psychological Association. His fifth book, Words and
                      Rules: The Ingredients of Language, was published in October.
                      A reception will follow the talk.

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