One of his most-readbooks was directly argued against in Geoffrey Sampson's Educating Eve.
This writer devoted several chapters to an attempt to solve Baker's Paradox about connotationsin his text about how children understand fine grammatical distinctions which they are never taught,Learnability and Cognition. This author's most recent work is a book asking why the overall level ofviolence in society tends to decline over time, The Better Angels of Our Nature. One of his most-readbooks was directly argued against in Geoffrey Sampson's Educating Eve. Another of his popularbooks takes aim at what he describes as "the three linked dogmas" of the (*) noble savage, the ghost inthe machine, and the title belief, which this thinker labels a rejection of evolutionary psychology in favor ofthe "tabula rasa." For 10 points, identify this author of The Blank Slate who popularized Noam Chomsky'sidea of an innate brain capacity for grammar in The Language Instinct.
This writer devoted several chapters to an attempt to solve Baker's Paradox about connotationsin his text about how children understand fine grammatical distinctions which they are never taught,Learnability and Cognition.
Steven Pinker