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Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.
Steven Pinker
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Steven Pinker
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 18
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Steven Arthur Pinker
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