What novel ideas did Steven Pinker publish? His role in the intellecutal discourse seems to me to provide long arguments for certain claims to be true.
The quality of his arguments matters a great deal for that role.
He appears to have had novel ideas in his technical specialty, but his public writings are mostly about old ideas that have insufficient public defense. There, novelty isn’t a virtue (while correctness is).
What novel ideas did Steven Pinker publish? His role in the intellecutal discourse seems to me to provide long arguments for certain claims to be true.
The quality of his arguments matters a great deal for that role.
He appears to have had novel ideas in his technical specialty, but his public writings are mostly about old ideas that have insufficient public defense. There, novelty isn’t a virtue (while correctness is).