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Of thought and metaphor
by possibly noteworthy at 6:36 am EST, Jan 25, 2007

Five years ago, Steven Pinker ignited an academic firestorm with the best-selling book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, which argued that innate behavioural differences exist among individuals and between men and women.

The 52-year-old cognitive scientist is again challenging conventional wisdom with The Stuff of Thought, a book about language due out in September. He'll deliver a lecture in Toronto on the topic Wednesday, as part of 15th anniversary celebrations for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

You know it's big when the book tour starts nine months in advance. He'll be at UCSB on February 2. He was in Toronto last night.

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