Steven Pinker, psychology professor at Harvard University, formerly with the department of brain and cognitive sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Penguin, 2002). He says seeing morality as a product of the brain is less dangerous than the idea that morality is invested in the commands of religious authority. Sept. 11, he says, is only an example of where morality derived from religion leads. He is a noted atheist and won the Atheist Alliance of America’s Richard Dawkins Award in 2013.
| Website | http://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/steven-pinker |
| Email address | pinker@wjh.harvard.edu |
| Phone number | 617-495-0831 |
| Categories | Beliefs & practices, education, Ethics, Science & health, Society & culture |
| Locations | Massachusetts, United States of America |
| Faiths | Atheism/Agnosticism |
| Languages | English |