He is the author of several critically acclaimed books including How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate.

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Once you have done that, you will, in effect, have finished the job of explaining how the mind works.

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People often assume that knowing about the brain is all that you need to explain how the mind works, so that neuroscience will replace psychology.

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Steven Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, US, and the author of the best-sellers The Language Instinct and How The Mind Works.

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In theory, if you did manage to trace how the brain was shaped by natural selection, you might shed some light on how the mind works.

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But it would be just as accurate to say that knowing about the mind explains how the brain works.

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The movie keeps us close to him, and we learn, with increasing admiration, how his mind works.

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