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Ep52 - Steven Pinker: "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress"
Talks at Google - August 06, 2019 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 113 ratingsIf you think the world is coming to an end, think again. People are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, Steven Pinker believes the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Is the world really falling apart? Is...
Steven Pinker and David Runciman on Optimism, Enlightenment and Progress
Intelligence Squared - May 03, 2019 02:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratingsIn this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we were joined by Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist and author of Enlightenment Now, in conversation with Cambridge University's David Runciman. They discussed the advances made in our societies over the last several hundred years, and wheth...
Steven Pinker - Enlightenment Now
London Real - April 17, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsSteven Pinker is a best-selling author and Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Watch the FULL EPISODE here:https://londonreal.tv/e/steven-pinker/
Ep. 73: Phil Torres on Existential Risks, Steven Pinker's Sloppy Scholarship, & Superintelligent AI
Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael - March 22, 2019 21:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsCatastrophic Climate Change. Superintelligent AI. It's the end of the world as we know it on this edition of Parallax Views as author and researcher Phil Torres joins us to discuss the emerging field of study known as existential risks. The concept of existential risk, which philosopher Nick Bo...
Dr. Steven Pinker Says Good News Is a Hard Sell
Kickass News - Afar - January 17, 2019 21:09 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsA year ago, Dr. Steven Pinker's book Enlightenment Now made headlines for giving hard data that proved that the world is safer, happier, and freer than ever, but he was surprised by how many people just don't want to believe good news! Today Dr. Pinker returns to the podcast to review the metri...
Steven Pinker argues that our pessimism about today's world is profoundly wrong
The TED Interview - November 13, 2018 11:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsWas 2017 really the "the worst ever," as some would have us believe? Cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker shares data that shows: actually, it was one of the best overall. At TED2018, Chris sat down with Steven to take a closer look at the data that suggest the world is imp...
Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason
Lex Fridman Podcast - October 17, 2018 11:55 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsSteven Pinker is a professor at Harvard and before that was a professor at MIT. He is the author of many books, several of which have had a big impact on the way I see the world for the better. In particular, The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now have instilled in me a sense of op...
Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now
Inquiring Minds - September 27, 2018 07:43 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 821 ratingsWe talk with cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker about his recent book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds
Sense of Style with Steven Pinker - Ri Science Podcast #28
Ri Science Podcast - September 25, 2018 10:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsStyle guides set out strict rules for writing well, but how much of that grammar policing is just dogma, and how much is helpful for communication? Drawing on the latest research in linguistics and cognitive science, Steven Pinker uses reason and evidence to tell us how to communicate effectively...
Ep. #468: Lawrence O’Donnell, Steven Pinker
Real Time with Bill Maher - August 11, 2018 04:44 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 14.5K ratingsBill’s guests are Lawrence O’Donnell, Steven Pinker, Christina Bellantoni, D.L. Hughley, and Rep. Seth Moulton (Originally aired 08/10/18) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Steven Pinker vs Nick Spencer: Have science, reason & humanism replaced faith?
Unbelievable? - June 22, 2018 14:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratingsIn the second Big Conversation episode, Justin is joined by Harvard professor of psychology Steven Pinker and Nick Spencer of Christian think-tank Theos. They debate the future of humanity in relation to Pinker’s recent book ‘Enlightenment Now’, addressing his claim that science, reason and hum...
Steven Pinker Makes the Case for Science, Reason, Humanism, and Progress
Kickass News - Afar - April 19, 2018 07:17 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsProfessor Steven Pinker (Bill Gates' favorite author) discusses the irony that the news media has become measurably more negative at same time as our quality life has dramatically improved. He outlines how the top 15 objective metrics of human progress indicate that life is getting better not wo...
138. Steven Pinker (Cognitive Scientist) – The Defeat of Defeatism
Think Again – a Big Think Podcast - March 10, 2018 11:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 556 ratingsI admit it. I confess. I’ve got a touch of what my guest today calls “progressophobia”. Ever since Charles Dickens got hold of me back in middle school, and William Blake after that, I’ve been a little suspicious of the Great Onward March of science and technology. Gene therapy, healthier crops, ...
A Better Future Through Enlightenment: Interview With Steven Pinker
Rule Breaker Investing - March 07, 2018 20:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 888 ratingsPoverty, disease, violent crime, famine... nearly every measure of human suffering is going steadily down, as surely as overall prosperity is going up. That's not just optimism, that's what the data show. Today we're delighted to present our guest Steven Pinker, author of several books including...
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Design Matters with Debbie Millman - February 26, 2018 20:00 ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsOn this episode, Debbie talks to experimental psychologist and author Steven Pinker about measuring human happiness..
296. Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast - February 23, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 875 ratingsScience fiction author David Barr Kirtley (Save Me Plz and Other Stories) talks geek culture with guests such as Neil Gaiman (#253), George R. R. Martin (#22), Richard Dawkins (#46), Simon Pegg (#39), Bill Nye (#273), Margaret Atwood (#94), Neil deGrasse Tyson (#32), and Ursula K. Le Guin (#65)....
I Have to Ask: Steven Pinker
Slate Daily Feed - February 16, 2018 15:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 1K ratingsSteven Pinker is the author of the new book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss why he thinks life is improving despite the worldwide rise of demagogues, what Trump tells us about America’s relationship to Enlightenm...
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Slate Conversations - February 16, 2018 15:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 179 ratingsSteven Pinker is the author of the new book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss why he thinks life is improving despite the worldwide rise of demagogues, what Trump tells us about America’s relationship to Enlightenm...
SIO110: No, Steven Pinker Isn't Alt-Right (but he's still wrong...)
Serious Inquiries Only - January 11, 2018 07:15 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 978 ratings*I mention Eiynah as the one who sent me the video. I just want to emphasize she had the full context and I didn't mean to imply she was spreading the fake news version without thinking. She has a great thread on it here. Recently, an edited video circulated and caused an uproar among liberals. I...
Steven Pinker on Good Writing, with Ian McEwan
Intelligence Squared - February 10, 2017 00:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratingsSteven Pinker is one of the world’s leading authorities on language, mind and human nature. A professor of psychology at Harvard, he is the bestselling author of eight books and regularly appears in lists of the world’s top 100 thinkers. In 2014 he returned to the Intelligence Squared stage to di...
Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason)
Conversations with Tyler - November 02, 2016 12:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsSteven Pinker has spent an entire academic career thinking deeply about language, cognition, and human nature. Driving it all, he says, is an Enlightenment belief that the world is intelligible, science can progress, and through rational inquiry we can better understand ourselves. He recently ...
Interview With Steven Pinker: Masters in Business (Audio)
Masters in Business - June 03, 2016 18:43 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsJune 3 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Pinker has also taught at Stanford and MIT. His research on vision, language, and social relations has won prizes from the National Academy of Sc...
Ep. 435: Steven Pinker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following - March 25, 2016 02:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 567 ratingsMy guest today is Steven Pinker, a Canadian-born American cognitive scientist, psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computationa...
Steven Pinker - Too Much Morality REDUX
London Real - January 18, 2015 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsOnly this weekend Mr Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, announced in his new book club ‘A Year of Books’ that he’d be taking on Stephen Pinker’s ‘The Better Angel’s of Our Nature’. Within hours, the book catapulted on Amazon’s chart from 6,521st to 501st. A timely coincidence for our ...
54 Steven Pinker - The Science Behind Writing Well
Inquiring Minds - October 02, 2014 23:14 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 821 ratingsSan Francisco! Come see us interview Adam Savage live on Oct. 28! http://www.bayareascience.org/event/im-story-collider/ On the show this week we talk to celebrated Harvard cognitive scientist and psycholinguist Steven Pinker about his new book The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to ...
Steven Pinker on Good Writing with Ian McEwan
Intelligence Squared - September 30, 2014 19:35 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratingsSteven Pinker is one of the world’s leading authorities on language, mind and human nature. A professor of psychology at Harvard, he is the bestselling author of eight books and regularly appears in lists of the world’s top 100 thinkers. In 2014 he returned to the Intelligence Squared stage to di...
Guest: Steven Pinker
Freethought Radio - April 28, 2014 06:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsIN THE NEWS: Dan Barker and substitute co-host Andrew Seidel discuss FFRF's freethought display in Daley Plaza and proselytizing Clemson University coach Dabo Swinney. We announce a major FFRF legal victory stopping prayer at city council meetings in Pismo Beach, California. Then we talk with sc...
Steven Pinker on The Better Angels of Our Nature
Intelligence Squared - January 10, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratingsWe launch our first podcast of the year today – our 2011 talk by the world renowned American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. In it he argues that, contrary to popular belief, we are living in the least violent period of history. And that even the horrific carnage of the last century, compared ...
Steven Pinker on The Better Angels of Our Nature
Intelligence Squared - January 10, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratingsWe launch our first podcast of the year today – our 2011 talk by the world renowned American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. In it he argues that, contrary to popular belief, we are living in the least violent period of history. And that even the horrific carnage of the last century, compared ...
Steven Pinker
Desert Island Discs - June 30, 2013 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsKirsty Young's castaway this week is cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker. An author and Harvard professor he's been named by Time Magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential scientists and thinkers. The psychology of violence and where language comes from are just two of his specialist...
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